N.Y. Vehicle & Traffic Law § 1700: Controlling authority

§ 1700. Controlling authority. 1. Notwithstanding any other provision

of law, the regulation of TNCs and TNC drivers is governed exclusively

by the provisions of the chapter of the laws of two thousand seventeen

which added this section and any rules promulgated by the state through

its agencies consistent with such chapter. No county, town, city or

village may enact a tax or any fee or other surcharge on a TNC, a TNC

driver, or a TNC vehicle used by a TNC driver or require a license,

permit, or additional insurance coverage or any other limitations or

restrictions, except for a prohibition on pick-up pursuant to section

one hundred eighty-two of the general municipal law, for a TNC, a TNC

driver, or a TNC vehicle used by a TNC driver, where such fee,

surcharge, unauthorized tax, license, permit, insurance coverage,

limitation or restriction, relates to facilitating or providing TNC

prearranged trips, or subjects a TNC, a TNC driver, or a TNC vehicle

used by a TNC driver to operational, or other requirements.

2. Nothing in this article shall authorize any TNC driver to pick-up a

passenger for purposes of a TNC prearranged trip in a city with a

population of one million or more or where a county or city has opted to

prohibit the same pursuant to authority consistent with section one

hundred eighty-two of the general municipal law, except where the

acceptance of a prearranged trip is authorized pursuant to an existing

reciprocity agreement.

3. Nothing in this article shall: (a) limit the ability of a county,

town, city or village to adopt or amend generally applicable limitations

or restrictions relating to local traffic or parking control as

authorized by state law; or (b) preempt any reciprocity agreements,

including agreements entered into pursuant to section four hundred

ninety-eight of this chapter, between a county, town, city or village

that relates to services regulated by section one hundred eighty-one of

the general municipal law.

4. Nothing in this article shall be construed to limit the ability of

a municipality or other governing authority that owns or operates an

airport located outside of a city with a population of one million or

more from adopting regulations and entering into contracts or other

agreements relating to the duties and responsibilities on airport

property of a transportation network company, which may include the

imposition and payment of reasonable fees, provided that any such

contracts, agreements, or regulations shall not impose any license or

other operational requirement on a transportation network company driver

or transportation network company vehicle that is inconsistent with or

additional to the requirements of this article.