Requires all bus companies to post on their internet websites or at the places they sell tickets, certain information maintained by the federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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9640
IN ASSEMBLY
March 26, 2024
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Introduced by M. of A. KIM -- read once and referred to the Committee on
Transportation
AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to requiring
motor carriers of passengers to post, for public viewing, certain
information on their websites
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The vehicle and traffic law is amended by adding a new
2 section 509-nn to read as follows:
3 § 509-nn. Motor carrier information. 1. Each motor carrier shall post,
4 for public viewing, on its website the information relating to such
5 carrier as posted on the website of the federal Motor Carrier Safety
6 Administration including, but not limited to:
7 (a) its United States Department of Transportation identification
8 number;
9 (b) its on road performance percentile;
10 (c) its summary of activities;
11 (d) its inspection history; and
12 (e) a summary of its violations.
13 2. In the event that a motor carrier does not maintain a publicly
14 accessible website, such carrier shall conspicuously post, at each place
15 where the motor carrier sells tickets for transportation, a notice which
16 provides the information required by subdivision one of this section.
17 3. The information required to be provided by this section shall be
18 updated not less frequently than once every three months.
19 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
20 it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amend-
21 ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
22 tation of the provisions of this act on its effective date are author-
23 ized to be made and completed on or before such effective date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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