File #: Int 1168-2023    Version: * Name: Safety standards for powered bicycles and powered mobility devices used for food delivery services.
Type: Introduction Status: Filed (End of Session)
Committee: Committee on Consumer and Worker Protection
On agenda: 9/14/2023
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to safety standards for powered bicycles and powered mobility devices used for food delivery services.
Sponsors: Oswald Feliz, Keith Powers , Marjorie Velázquez, Shaun Abreu, Rita C. Joseph, Gale A. Brewer, Farah N. Louis, Christopher Marte, Selvena N. Brooks-Powers, Lynn C. Schulman, Lincoln Restler, Chi A. Ossé, Tiffany Cabán, Kevin C. Riley, Julie Menin, Crystal Hudson, Joseph C. Borelli
Council Member Sponsors: 17
Summary: This bill would establish safety standards for powered bicycles and powered mobility devices when used for food delivery services. Specifically, the bill requires that any powered mobility device operated by a food delivery worker on behalf of a third-party delivery service or third-party courier service, meet local standards established for the sale of such device, which includes certification by an accredited testing laboratory. Third-party delivery services or third-party courier services would be responsible for providing food delivery workers with such devices at no expense to the worker. Finally, responsibility for compliance with these provisions would fall on the third-party delivery service or third-party courier service, which would be subject to civil penalties for any violations.
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 1168, 2. Int. No. 1168, 3. September 14, 2023 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 4. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 9-14-23, 5. Minutes of the Stated Meeting - September 14, 2023, 6. Committee Report 10/23/23, 7. Hearing Testimony 10/23/23, 8. Hearing Transcript 10/23/23

Int. No. 1168

 

By Council Members Feliz, Powers, Velázquez, Abreu, Joseph, Brewer, Louis, Marte, Brooks-Powers, Schulman, Restler, Ossé, Cabán, Riley, Menin, Hudson and Borelli

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to safety standards for powered bicycles and powered mobility devices used for food delivery services.

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Section 20-1501 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new definition of “powered mobility device” in alphabetical order to read as follows:

 Powered mobility device. The term “powered mobility device” shall be a powered bicycle or a powered mobility device, as such terms are defined in subchapter 2 of chapter 4 of title 20.

§2. Subchapter 2 of chapter 15 of title 20 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 20-1526 to read as follows:

§ 20-1526 Powered mobility devices. Any powered mobility device operated by a food delivery worker on behalf of a third-party delivery service or third-party courier service shall meet the standard for sale established by paragraph 1 of subdivision a of section 20-610, or paragraph 1 of subdivision b of such section, and any rules promulgated pursuant to either such paragraphs. Any such powered mobility device shall be provided at the expense of such delivery service or courier service, or by the food delivery worker. Such delivery service or courier service may permit a food delivery worker to make deliveries using a personal device that meets the standards provided in this section, provided that such delivery service or courier service shall not require any of its food delivery workers to provide such powered mobility device at such worker's expense as a term of employment.

§ 3. This local law takes effect 6 months after becoming law.

 

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9/7/23