The New York City Council - File #: Int 1062-2018

• File #: Int 1062-2018
• Version: A
• Name: Risk of loss on payments for trips dispatched by high-volume for-hire services.
• Type: Introduction
• Status: Enacted
• Committee: Committee on For-Hire Vehicles
• On agenda: 8/8/2018
• Enactment date: 12/15/2018
• Law number: 2018/217
• Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to risk of loss on payments for trips dispatched by high-volume for-hire services
• Sponsors: Barry S. Grodenchik, Robert F. Holden, Deborah L. Rose, Ben Kallos, Adrienne E. Adams, Stephen T. Levin
• Council Member Sponsors: 6
• Summary: This bill would require drivers for high-volume for-hire services to be paid the full amount for a trip regardless of whether the payment transaction fails, unless the driver’s account is associated with fraudulent activity. The bill would impose a civil penalty of not less than $250 and up to $500 for each violation.
• Indexes: Agency Rule-making Required

Date	Ver.	Prime Sponsor	Action By	Action	Result
12/18/2018	A	Barry S. Grodenchik	City Council	Returned Unsigned by Mayor
12/15/2018	A	Barry S. Grodenchik	Administration	City Charter Rule Adopted
11/14/2018	A	Barry S. Grodenchik	City Council	Sent to Mayor by Council
11/14/2018	A	Barry S. Grodenchik	City Council	Approved by Council	Pass
11/13/2018	*	Barry S. Grodenchik	Committee on For-Hire Vehicles	Hearing Held by Committee
11/13/2018	*	Barry S. Grodenchik	Committee on For-Hire Vehicles	Amendment Proposed by Comm
11/13/2018	*	Barry S. Grodenchik	Committee on For-Hire Vehicles	Amended by Committee
11/13/2018	A	Barry S. Grodenchik	Committee on For-Hire Vehicles	Approved by Committee	Pass
9/17/2018	*	Barry S. Grodenchik	Committee on For-Hire Vehicles	Hearing Held by Committee
9/17/2018	*	Barry S. Grodenchik	Committee on For-Hire Vehicles	Laid Over by Committee
8/8/2018	*	Barry S. Grodenchik	City Council	Referred to Comm by Council
8/8/2018	*	Barry S. Grodenchik	City Council	Introduced by Council

Int. No. 1062-A

By Council Members Grodenchik, Holden, Rose, Kallos, Adams and Levin

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to risk of loss on payments for trips dispatched by high-volume for-hire services

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

Section 1. Chapter 5 of title 19 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 19-552 to read as follows: 

§ 19-552 Risk of loss on trip payments. a. Notwithstanding any inconsistent regulations, provisions of law or provisions of any contract entered into after the effective date of the local law that added this section, if a payment transaction for a completed trip dispatched by a high-volume for-hire service fails, such high-volume for-hire service shall ensure that the driver receives the entire amount owed to such driver for such completed trip.

b. Notwithstanding subdivision a of this section, a high-volume for-hire service may refuse to deposit funds to a driver for rendering services upon a reasonable belief that the driver’s account is associated with fraudulent activity.

c. Any high-volume for-hire service that violates this section is liable for a civil penalty of not less than $250 nor more than $500 for each offense.

§ 2. This local law takes effect 120 days after it becomes law, except that the New York city taxi and limousine commission shall take such measures as are necessary for the implementation of this local law, including the promulgation of rules, before such date.

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