2016 New York Laws
PBA - Public Authorities
Article 5 - PUBLIC UTILITY AUTHORITIES
Title 11-C - (1300 - 1323) 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