The NYC Taxi & Limousine Commission (TLC) is proposing to amend its rules to update its vehicle insurance requirements and to improve wait time requirements for the dispatching of Wheelchair Accessible Vehicles (WAVs) by Accessible Vehicle dispatchers and the reporting requirements of High-Volume For-Hire Services.

The public hearing will take place at 10:00am on December 11, 2024. It will be on Zoom; there will be no in person public hearing. The public hearing will be livestreamed on the TLC’s website atwww.nyc.gov/tlc.

To participate in the public hearing, e-mail the TLC at tlcrules@tlc.nyc.gov or call 212-676-1135 by December 10, 2024. After you have signed up to speak, TLC will provide you with a Zoom URL for computers or a dial-in number to speak by phone.

Anyone can comment on the proposed rules by:

  • You can submit comments to the TLC at www.nyc.gov/nycrules.
  • You can email comments to tlcrules@tlc.nyc.gov.
  • You can mail comments to the Taxi & Limousine Commission, Office of Legal Affairs, 33 Beaver Street – 22nd Floor, New York, NY 10004.
  • You can fax comments to the TLC at 212-676-1102.
  • By speaking at the hearing. To sign up to speak and provide testimony, you must e-mail the TLC at tlcrules@tlc.nyc.gov or call 212-676-1135 by 5:00pm on December 10, 2024. Speakers will not be able to sign up to testify the day of the hearing. Please note that the hearing is for accepting oral testimony only and is not held in a “Question and Answer” format.

If you need assistance to participate, you must tell the Office of Legal Affairs if you need a reasonable accommodation of a disability (like a sign language interpreter) by mail (at the address above) or telephone at 212-676-1135, by December 10, 2024.

You can review the online comments at www.nyc.gov/nycrules. A few days after the hearing, copies of all comments submitted online, copies of all written comments, and a summary of oral comments concerning the proposed rule will be available to the public at the Office of Legal Affairs.

Source: NYC Taxi & Limousine Commission

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