NY Pub Auth L § 1307-A (2021)
2021 New York Laws PBA - Public Authorities Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities Title 11-C - Capital District Transportation Authority 1307-A - Additional Special Powers of the Authority.

* §  1307-a.  Additional  special  powers of the authority. 1. For the purposes of this section, the following terms shall have  the  following meanings:  (a)  "administer"  shall  mean  an  action carried out in a prescribed manner not allowing for substantial personal discretion for the  purpose of  processing  taxicab  driver  permits  and  taxicab registrations and licenses, consisting of: (i) making city, town or village taxicab driver permit  and  taxicab  vehicle  registration  and  license   applications available  to  applicants;  (ii)  referring taxicab driver applicants to medical and/or drug and  alcohol  testing  personnel  for  any  exam  or testing as may be required to submit a taxicab driver application; (iii) acting  as the designated entity for the submission of such applications including forms for any required medical exams and/or drug  and  alcohol testing;  (iv) processing criminal background and/or department of motor vehicles license checks as may be required by law for a  taxicab  driver application  and  as  the  authority  is  otherwise authorized by law to process such checks; (v) forwarding applications, any  required  medical and/or  drug and alcohol test forms and any required criminal background or department of motor vehicles license checks to the  applicable  city, town  or village; (vi) and, providing taxicab driver permits and taxicab vehicle registrations and licenses upon receiving notification from such city,  town  or  village  that  such  municipality  has  approved   such applications  and issued such permit, registration or license. Such term shall also include the collection and forwarding of  taxicab  complaints to the relevant municipality;  (b)   "taxicab  vehicle  registration  and  license"  shall  mean  the authority granted by the relevant municipality, in the form of a taxicab medallion, for an applicant to own a vehicle designated as a taxicab and for  such  taxicab  to  be  used  as  such  within  such  municipality's jurisdiction;  (c)  "taxicab  driver  permit" shall mean the authority granted by the relevant municipality for an applicant to drive a vehicle with a taxicab medallion within such municipality's jurisdiction; and  (d) "identical ordinance" shall mean ordinances of the several cities, towns  and  villages  that  are  located   in   the   Capital   District transportation  district that regulate the registration and licensing of taxicab vehicles and regulate taxicab driver permits pursuant to section one hundred eighty-one of the general municipal law  and  are  identical with the exception of rates for taxicab service and application, permit, registration and license fees.   2. (a) The authority is authorized to enter into an agreement with any city,  town  or  village located within the transportation district that has adopted an  identical  ordinance  regulating  the  registration  and licensing  of  taxicab  vehicles, and the permitting of taxicab drivers, pursuant to the provisions of section  one  hundred  eighty-one  of  the general  municipal law, to administer taxicab driver permits and taxicab vehicle registrations and licenses on  behalf  of  such  city,  town  or village.   Entry  into  such  agreement  shall  be  authorized  only  by resolution of the authority approved by not less than a majority of  the whole number of members of the authority then in office.  (b)  Nothing  contained  in  this  act,  or in any state or local law, order, ordinance, rule, regulation  or  administrative  code,  shall  be deemed  to authorize the authority to approve or deny initial or renewal of taxicab vehicle registration  and  license  applications  or  taxicab driver  permit applications, or to cancel, suspend, revoke or take other action against a taxicab vehicle registration  and  license  or  taxicab driver  permit  or  the  holder  thereof, or to impose any penalties for violations.  (c) Pursuant to an agreement as described in  paragraph  (a)  of  this subdivision,  the authority is authorized to perform medical or drug and alcohol testing for applicants to the extent the authority is  currently authorized  and performing such testing for the authority's bus drivers, and  process  such  criminal  background  checks and department of motor vehicle license checks on each applicant for a taxicab driver permit  to the extent otherwise authorized by state and federal law.  (d)  Nothing in this section or section two of the chapter of the laws of two thousand sixteen which added this section shall be  construed  to prevent  a  city,  town  or  village  at  any  time  to withdraw from or terminate an agreement to have the authority administer the issuance  of taxicab driver permits and taxicab vehicle registrations and licenses on behalf of such city, town or village.   3.  (a) The total cost to the authority of administering the agreement authorized pursuant to this section shall be borne entirely by the city, town or village within the district which is a party to such  agreement. On  or before June first of each year, the authority shall determine and certify to each city, town or village with which it has entered into  an agreement  pursuant  to this section the total cost to the authority for the twelve-month period ending  the  preceding  March  thirty-first,  of administering   such  agreement  within  each  city,  town  or  village, respectively. On or before the following September first of  each  year, each  such city, town or village shall pay to the authority such cost so certified to it on or before the preceding June first.  Not  later  than twenty  days  after  each such payment is submitted or is due, whichever occurs first, the authority shall submit to the director of  the  budget and  the  chairpersons  of  the  fiscal  committees of the legislature a report for each such city, town and village showing the amount of  costs so  certified  and the amount of payments so received or due. If a city, town or village fails to make the payment required to the  authority  by the  twentieth  day after the date such payment was due, such city, town or village shall no longer  be  deemed  a  signatory  to  the  agreement authorized  by  this  section  on  such  twentieth day and the authority shall: (i) notify the director of the budget and the chairpersons of the fiscal  committees  of  the  legislature  of  such   occurrence   within twenty-four hours of such day; and (ii) be prohibited from administering the  issuance  of  taxicab  driver permits and taxicab registrations and licenses on behalf of such city, town or village.  (b) If the authority should fail to  submit  any  report  required  by paragraph  (a)  of this subdivision, the agreement between the authority and each city, town or village shall be deemed void on the ninetieth day after the date such report was due,  unless  the  authority  shall  have submitted  such  report  prior to such ninetieth day; provided, however, that any taxicab driver permit and any taxicab vehicle registration  and license  issued pursuant to such agreement shall not be voided and shall continue in full force and effect  until  its  date  of  expiration  and subject to the applicable local ordinance.   4.  The performance by the authority of the provisions of this section shall, for the purposes of this section,  be  deemed  to  be  a  further purpose of the authority; provided, however, that the authority shall be prohibited from increasing omnibus fares, decreasing omnibus service, or in  any  way  changing,  modifying,  or altering services related to its primary purpose to continue,  develop  and  improve  transportation  and other   services   related   thereto   within   the   Capital   District transportation district by railroad, omnibus,  marine  and  air  as  set forth  in  section  thirteen  hundred  four  of  this  title  due to its performance of any act authorized or required by the provisions of  this section.    * NB Repealed July 1, 2021