N.Y.C. Admin. Code § L.L. 1985/075: L.L. 1985/075

Enactment date: 12/2/1985

Int. No. 845-A

By Council Member Greitzer (by request of the Mayor), Council Members Berman, Dear, Horwitz, Pinkett and Spigner; also Council Members Castaneira-Colon, Ferrer, Friedlander, Leffler, Michels, O'Donovan, Povman and Williams

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to the tow cars

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

Section one. Declaration of legislative findings. The council finds that numerous tow cars and tow car drivers which tow disabled motor vehicles are operating without a license in flagrant violation of the provisions of the administrative code. The council finds that the continued operation of unlicensed tow cars and drivers defeats the intent of the council to regulate the tow car industry and poses a serious threat to the health, safety and welfare of the people of New York City and of the visitors thereto. The council further finds that the sanctions and penalties applied by the police commissioner must be sufficient to achieve the purposes of licensing and, to this end, the police commissioner should be authorized to impose further sanctions and penalties than those currently allowed by law. Such sanctions and penalties include additional penalties relating to the suspension or revocation of tow car and driver's licenses, additional fines, orders to cease activity for which a license is required but has not been obtained and orders to remove or make inoperable tow cars which operate without a license where one is required. These further sanctions and penalties are reasonable and necessary in order to protect the health and safety of the people of the city and to promote the general welfare.

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[Consolidated provisions are not included in this Appendix A]

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§ 3. If any provision of this local law or the application thereof to any person or circumstances is held invalid, the remainder of this law and the application of such provisions to other persons and circumstances shall not be rendered invalid thereby.

§ 4. This local law shall take effect ninety days after its enactment into law and shall expire and be of no further effect two years after its effective date, except with respect to any rights, duties, liabilities, violations, penalties or other obligations arising or occurring thereunder during such period of effectiveness. After the expiration of this local law the provisions of subdivisions (s), (t) and (u) of section 436-7.0 of Title A of chapter eighteen of the administrative code of the city of New York as they were in force and effect on the date immediately preceding the repeal of such subdivisions by section two of this local law shall be deemed to be reenacted and shall thereafter be in full force and effect as if this local law had not been enacted.