Requires pre-trip safety briefings by drivers of stretch limousines; directs the commissioner of DMV to establish content for safety briefings to be made to passengers and requires drivers to demonstrate proficiency in providing briefings.
Provides that a stretch limousine shall not be operated if it is more than ten years old or has more than 350,000 miles on the odometer, whichever occurs first; permits exceptions by the commissioner; provides for imputed odometer calculation in certain circumstances.
Relates to additional equipment requirements for stretch limousines; requires that stretch limousines are equipped with the necessary quantity of window break tools and operational fire extinguishers.
Requires that for hire vehicles with a chassis which was manufactured and then altered for the purpose of transporting ten or more occupants, including the driver, be equipped with an operable carbon monoxide detector.
Relates to the operation of vehicles on approach of vehicles displaying a blue light; requires vehicles to pull over on approach of vehicles displaying a blue light.
Provides milk dealers and agricultural food product transporters with electronic toll collection devices free of charge; requires the department of transportation to reimburse the thruway authority and the metropolitan transportation authority for costs incurred in providing such toll collection devices.
Directs the New York state department of transportation and the New York city department of transportation to conduct a study on parking availability along the portion of 8th Avenue between 39th street and 73rd street in the borough of Brooklyn in the city of New York.
Provides that the owner of a hazard vehicle service or of a taxicab, livery, bus, coach, limousine, van or wheelchair accessible van service, who has permitted an employee to operate such a vehicle when such employee has not been issued a valid state driver's license or whose license has been suspended or revoked shall have his business license suspended for thirty days.
Provides exemption from suspension of a driver's license for persons serving fulltime active military duty who fail to pay fines from traffic or parking violations.