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                                   9059
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 10, 2020
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 Introduced  by  M.  of  A. SANTABARBARA -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on Transportation
 
 AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law and the transportation  law,
   in relation to motor carriers of stretch limousines
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Section 509-d of the vehicle and traffic law is amended  by
 adding a new subdivision 5-a to read as follows:
   (5-A)  EVERY  MOTOR CARRIER SHALL FURNISH THE DEPARTMENT, BEGINNING NO
 LATER THAN JULY FIRST, TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-ONE AND ANNUALLY  THEREAFTER,
 A  LIST OF EACH ALTERED MOTOR VEHICLE COMMONLY REFERRED TO AS A "STRETCH
 LIMOUSINE", IF ANY, DESIGNED TO CARRY NINE OR MORE PASSENGERS  INCLUDING
 THE  DRIVER  THAT  SUCH  MOTOR  CARRIER  OPERATES  PURSUANT TO OPERATING
 AUTHORITY ISSUED BY THE COMMISSIONER OF  TRANSPORTATION,  INCLUDING  THE
 VEHICLE  IDENTIFICATION  NUMBER  AND  REGISTRATION  NUMBER  OF EACH SUCH
 ALTERED MOTOR VEHICLE, AND A LIST OF  ALL  DRIVERS  SUCH  MOTOR  CARRIER
 EMPLOYS WHO DRIVE SUCH ALTERED MOTOR VEHICLES AND WHETHER SUCH DRIVER IS
 QUALIFIED OR HAS BEEN DISQUALIFIED TO OPERATE SUCH ALTERED MOTOR VEHICLE
 PURSUANT TO THIS ARTICLE.
   § 2. Subdivision 1 of section 509-m of the vehicle and traffic law, as
 added by chapter 675 of the laws of 1985, is amended to read as follows:
   1.  At  least  once  every three years, review the bus driver files of
 each motor carrier, provided, however, that the commissioner may  review
 such bus driver files at his discretion at any other time during regular
 business  hours.   PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT THE COMMISSIONER SHALL REVIEW
 AT LEAST ANNUALLY THE BUS DRIVER FILES OF  EACH  DRIVER  EMPLOYED  BY  A
 MOTOR CARRIER WHO OPERATES AN ALTERED MOTOR VEHICLE COMMONLY REFERRED TO
 AS  A  "STRETCH  LIMOUSINE"  DESIGNED  TO  CARRY NINE OR MORE PASSENGERS
 INCLUDING THE DRIVER PURSUANT  TO  OPERATING  AUTHORITY  ISSUED  BY  THE
 COMMISSIONER  OF  TRANSPORTATION,  AND ANNUALLY VERIFY WHETHER EACH SUCH
 DRIVER HOLDS A VALID DRIVER'S LICENSE VALID FOR THE  OPERATION  OF  SUCH
 ALTERED MOTOR VEHICLE.
   § 3. Section 509-m of the vehicle and traffic law is amended by adding
 a new subdivision 8 to read as follows:
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
              

                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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   8.  MAINTAIN  AND  ANNUALLY  UPDATE ITS WEBSITE TO PROVIDE INFORMATION
 WITH REGARD TO EACH MOTOR CARRIER THAT OPERATES ALTERED  MOTOR  VEHICLES
 COMMONLY  REFERRED  TO AS "STRETCH LIMOUSINES" DESIGNED TO CARRY NINE OR
 MORE PASSENGERS INCLUDING THE DRIVER  PURSUANT  TO  OPERATING  AUTHORITY
 ISSUED  BY  THE  COMMISSIONER  OF TRANSPORTATION THAT INCLUDES THE MOTOR
 CARRIER'S NAME, LOCATION AND REGION  OF  OPERATION  INCLUDING  PLACE  OF
 ADDRESS,  WHETHER  SUCH MOTOR CARRIER IS IN COMPLIANCE WITH THIS ARTICLE
 AS REQUIRED BY SECTION FIVE HUNDRED NINE-J OF THIS ARTICLE  IN  RELATION
 TO  THE  OPERATION OF SUCH ALTERED MOTOR VEHICLES, THE NUMBER AND NATURE
 OF VIOLATIONS OF THIS ARTICLE RESULTING IN  CONVICTIONS  OF  SUCH  MOTOR
 CARRIER IN RELATION TO THE OPERATION OF SUCH ALTERED MOTOR VEHICLES, THE
 NUMBER OF MILES TRAVELED BY SUCH ALTERED MOTOR VEHICLES OPERATED BY SUCH
 MOTOR CARRIER IN THE PRECEDING TWELVE MONTHS, AND, WITH RESPECT TO DRIV-
 ERS  EMPLOYED  BY  SUCH MOTOR CARRIER OPERATING SUCH ALTERED MOTOR VEHI-
 CLES, THE TOTAL NUMBER SO EMPLOYED, THE NUMBER  HOLDING  VALID  LICENSES
 WHICH  ARE  VALID  FOR THE OPERATION OF SUCH ALTERED MOTOR VEHICLES, THE
 NUMBER WHICH LACK LICENSES VALID FOR SUCH OPERATION, THE NUMBER DISQUAL-
 IFIED  FROM  OPERATING  SUCH  ALTERED  MOTOR  VEHICLES,  THE  NUMBER  OF
 CONVICTIONS  AND  ACCIDENTS  INVOLVING  ANY SUCH DRIVER EMPLOYED BY SUCH
 MOTOR CARRIER DURING THE PRECEDING TWELVE  MONTHS,  AND  THE  NUMBER  OF
 CONVICTIONS AND ACCIDENTS PER TEN THOUSAND MILES TRAVELED.
   §  4. Subdivision 9 of section 138 of the transportation law, as added
 by section 16 of part III of chapter 59 of the laws of 2019, is  amended
 to read as follows:
   9.  To maintain and ANNUALLY update its website to provide information
 with regard to each bus operator OR MOTOR  CARRIER  under  subparagraphs
 (ii)  and  (vi) of paragraph a of subdivision two of section one hundred
 forty of this [chapter] ARTICLE requiring department operating authority
 that includes the bus operator's OR  MOTOR  CARRIER'S  name,  number  of
 inspections,  number  of  out of service orders, operator identification
 number, location and region of operation  including  place  of  address,
 percentile  to which [a] AN OPERATOR OR motor carrier falls with respect
 to out of service defects, THE NUMBER OR PERCENTAGE OF  OUT  OF  SERVICE
 DEFECTS  WHERE  PURSUANT TO THE COMMISSIONER'S REGULATIONS NO INSPECTION
 CERTIFICATE SHALL BE ISSUED UNTIL THE DEFECT IS REPAIRED  AND  A  RE-IN-
 SPECTION  IS  CONDUCTED,  and  the  number of serious physical injury or
 fatal crashes involving a for-hire vehicle requiring operating authority
 pursuant to this article.
   § 5. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
 it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition,  amend-
 ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
 tation  of  this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and
 completed on or before such effective date.