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 NOTICE OF ADOPTION 
 
Notice of Adoption of Final Rule Regarding the Licensing and Regulation of Pedicab Businesses 
and Pedicab Drivers. 
 
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN PURSUANT TO THE AUTHORITY VESTED IN the 
Commissioner of the Department of Consumer Affairs by Section 20-104 (b) and Section 20-108 of 
Chapter 1, and Section 20-265 of Chapter 2, Title 20 of the Administrative Code of the City of New 
York and in accordance with the requirements of Section 1043 of the New York City Charter that     
the Department promulgates and adopts a rule regarding the licensing and regulation of pedicab 
businesses and pedicab drivers. 
 
The rule was proposed and published on July 3, 2007.  The required public hearing was held on 
August 3, 2007. 

All material is underlined because the entire rule is new. 
 
 RULE 

Section 1.  Subdivision (f) of section 1-02 of Title 6 of the Rules of the City of New 
York is relettered subdivision (g), and a new subdivision (f) is added, to read as 
follows: 
  (f)  Pedicab business licenses and pedicab driver licenses are valid for one year. 
Pedicab business licenses shall expire November 1 of each year and pedicab driver 
licenses shall expire April 30 of each year.   
  §2. Chapter 2 of Title 6 of the Rules of the City New York is amended by adding 
new subchapter GG to read as follows: 
 
SUBCHAPTER GG 
 
PEDICAB BUSINESS AND PEDICAB DRIVER 
 
  § 2-415 Definitions.  Whenever used in this subchapter, the term: 
(a)  “Licensee” shall mean a person licensed pursuant to subchapter 9 of chapter 2 of 
Title 20 of the New York City Administrative Code. 
(b)  “Applicant” shall mean any person applying for a pedicab business license or a 
pedicab driver license or for a renewal thereof and, unless otherwise provided by law 
or rule, the term shall include such person upon the issuance of such license or 
renewal thereof to such applicant.  
(c)  “Applicant pool for registration plates” or “pool” shall mean the total number of 
qualified applications for the assignment of pedicab registration plates from which the 
plates to be issued by the Commissioner pursuant to section 20-255 of the 
 
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Administrative Code of the City of New York are to be selected. 
(d)  “Established pedicab business” shall mean a business that has been engaged in a 
bona fide pedicab business before April 23, 2007, the date of enactment of Local Law 
No. 19 for the year 2007, as verified by written documentation furnished to the 
Commissioner.  
(e)  “Pedicab identification number” or “PIN” shall mean any combination of three or 
more letters and numbers that are permanently inscribed or stamped into the bottom 
bracket shell, head tube, or other non-detachable metal component of a pedicab frame 
and that uniquely identify the pedicab. 
(f)  “Prospective licensee” shall mean an applicant to whom the Commissioner has 
tentatively approved to be issued a pedicab business license subject to such applicant 
furnishing proof of insurance as required by section 20-253 of the Administrative 
Code of the City of New York covering each pedicab to be registered by such 
applicant and for which pedicab registration plates have been selected.      
(g)  “Accident” shall mean any event arising from the operation of a pedicab that 
causes or caused injury to a person or damage to property. 
§2-416 Application Procedures for Persons Seeking a Pedicab Business License 
and Pedicab Registration Plates.  (a) To be eligible for the issuance of pedicab 
registration plates on or before September 20, 2007, the effective date of Local Law 
No. 19 for the Year 2007, all applications for pedicab business licenses and for 
pedicab registration plates shall be governed by the following procedures: 
1.  The Department shall accept completed applications for pedicab business licenses 
on or after the Monday following the date of publication in the City Record of the 
“Notice of Adoption” of this subchapter.  
2.  Completed applications for such licenses must be received by the Department no 
later than 5:00 P.M. of the tenth calendar day following the date the Department will 
start accepting applications for pedicab business licenses.  An application shall be 
deemed complete only if the applicant has furnished all the information and 
documentation requested on the application for such pedicab business license, and for 
the issuance of pedicab registration plates.  
3.  The Commissioner shall identify two pools from the applicant pool for registration 
plates.   The first such pool shall be established as the established business applicant 
pool for registration plates by including all applicants qualified as described in 
subdivision (b) of this section.  The second such pool shall be established as the new 
business applicant pool for registration plates by including all qualified applicants as 
described in paragraph one of subdivision (c) of this section.   
 4.  Applicants for pedicab business licenses shall be notified whether the 
Commissioner has approved or denied their application for a pedicab business license. 
Such notification shall be made not later than five business days after the final date for 
receipt of applications, as provided by paragraph two of subdivision (a) of this section. 
 Approved applicants shall be deemed prospective licensees until the assignment of 
pedicab registrations plates is completed and the licenses are issued.   
 (b)  To qualify for inclusion in the established business applicant pool for registration 
plates, an applicant requesting a pedicab registration plate shall satisfy the following 
 
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requirements:   
1.  Request to be included in such pool in the pedicab business license application; 
2.  Specify the number of pedicabs for which an applicant requests registration plates, 
up to thirty, which is the maximum authorized by subdivision b of section 20-251 of 
the Administrative Code of the City of New York, for each licensee; and  
3.  Submit with its license application any of the below described qualifying 
documentation sufficient to verify the applicant was engaged in the pedicab business 
in New York City before April 23, 2007: 
(i)   a certificate of incorporation or a “doing business as” registration issued by a 
government agency in the name of the applicant for the pedicab business license that 
either on its face pertained to a pedicab business or can otherwise be shown to have 
pertained to such a business;   
(ii)   any other documentation issued by a governmental agency that authenticates that 
the person applying for a pedicab business license had, in fact, been engaged in such 
business;    
(iii)  certificates of insurance showing a policy for liability insurance was issued by an 
insurer authorized to do business in this state in the name of the person applying for a 
pedicab business license which was in force for an entire policy period commencing 
before April 23, 2007; or 
(iv)  an accurate and sworn statement affirming that the applicant has been engaged in 
the pedicab business as a sole-proprietor pedicab business or as a pedicab operator for 
at least one year prior to April 23, 2007, three independent references from persons 
who can substantiate that the applicant was engaged in the pedicab business during 
such period, and a copy of federal and state income tax returns that such applicant  
filed in any of the two most recent tax years, provided however that such applicant 
shall be eligible to request and to be issued only one pedicab registration plate out of 
the established business applicant pool for registration plates. 
4.  Applicants for the established business applicant pool for registration plates shall 
be included in such pool upon determination by the Commissioner that such 
applicants are qualified to be issued pedicab business licenses and have submitted the 
documentation required verifying that they were engaged in the pedicab business 
before April 23, 2007. 
 5.  Applicants in the established business applicant pool shall be grouped according to 
the following criteria for the purpose of determining the number of pedicab 
registration plates to be assigned to each applicant within each group in accordance 
with subdivision (d) of this section: 
(i)  Group A shall include all applicants who are qualified as established businesses 
pursuant to the provisions of subparagraph (iv) of paragraph three of subdivision (b) 
of this section; 
(ii)  Group B shall include all applicants who are qualified as established businesses 
pursuant to the provisions of subparagraphs (i), (ii) or (iii) of  paragraph three of 
subdivision (b) of this section and who are either unable to substantiate with proof of 
insurance that they had insured any pedicabs or who can substantiate with such proof 
that they had insured nine or fewer pedicabs for the most recent policy period ending 
 
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prior to April 23, 2007; 
(iii)  Group C shall include all applicants who are qualified as established businesses 
pursuant to the provisions of subparagraph (i), (ii) or (iii) of paragraph three of 
subdivision (b) of this section and who are able to substantiate with proof of insurance 
that they had insured more than ten and up to forty-nine pedicabs for the most recent 
policy period ending prior to April 23, 2007; 
(iv)  Group D shall include all applicants who are qualified as established businesses 
pursuant to the provisions of subparagraphs (i), (ii) or (iii) of paragraph three of 
subdivision (b) of this section and who are able to substantiate with proof of insurance 
that they had insured fifty or more pedicabs for the most recent policy period ending 
prior to April 23, 2007.  
(c)  Applicants for pedicab registration plates shall be included in the new business 
applicant pool for registration plates and the assignment of pedicab registration plates 
from such pool shall be governed by the following procedures:  
1.  Any applicant for a pedicab business license who does not request to be included in 
the  established business applicant pool for registration plates or who requests to be 
included in such pool but who fails to submit the documentation required to verify it 
was engaged in the pedicab business before April 23, 2007,  shall be included in the 
new business application pool for registration plates.  
2.  The number of pedicab registration plates available for applicants in the new 
business applicant pool for registration plates, up to the maximum authorized by 
subdivision b of section 20-251 of the Administrative Code of the City of New York, 
shall be the difference, if any, between three hundred twenty-five, as provided by 
subdivision a of section 20-251 of the Administrative Code of the City of New York, 
and the number of registration plates issued to the applicants in the established 
business applicant pool. 
(d)  Pedicab registration plates shall be selected from the established business 
applicant pool and the new business applicant pool according to the following 
procedure: 
1.  Pedicab registration plates shall first be assigned to applicants in the established 
business applicant pool until the maximum of three hundred twenty-five registration 
plates authorized by law to be issued is exhausted or until all requests for registration 
plates from applicants in the established business applicant pool, up to thirty plates for 
any pedicab business, are satisfied, whichever occurs first.  If applicants in the 
established business applicant pool request fewer than three hundred twenty-five 
pedicab registration plates, the remaining number of pedicab registration plates shall 
be assigned to the new business applicant pool. 
2. Pedicab registration plates shall be selected for assignment to applicants in the 
established business applicant pool and the new business applicant pool in rounds.  
Each round shall consist of all qualified applicants in the respective pool who have 
outstanding requests for the assignment of registration plates at the start of each 
selection round.  The following procedure shall be used to assign plates during each 
round: 
 (i)  If the number of plates available for assignment equals or exceeds the number 
 
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eligible to be assigned at the beginning of the round to all applicants remaining in the 
groups established pursuant to paragraph five of subdivision (b) of this section, then 
each applicant in Groups A and B shall be offered one pedicab registration plate, the 
applicants in Group C shall be offered five pedicab registration plates, and the 
applicants in Group D shall be offered ten pedicab registration plates during that round 
up to the maximum number each applicant had requested or the maximum of thirty 
plates per business has been offered, whichever is less.  The selection procedure shall 
move to the next round until the number of pedicab registration plates available for 
assignment is less than the number to be assigned according to the procedures for 
assigning pedicab registration plates to the applicants remaining in the groups 
established pursuant to paragraph five of subdivision (b) of this section who have 
outstanding requests.  
 (ii)  If the number of applicants with outstanding requests at the beginning of a round 
is more than the number of registration plates available to be issued, then each of the 
applicants remaining in any of the groups established pursuant to paragraph five of 
subdivision (b) of this section shall be assigned a coded identifier that will be the basis 
for randomly selecting the number of applicants equal to the number of registration 
plates available for that last round.  Each of such randomly selected applicants shall be 
assigned one of the remaining registration plates, regardless of the group to which the 
applicant belongs. 
 3.  Prospective licensees with outstanding requests for the assignment of pedicab 
registration plates after all registration plates authorized by law are assigned to be 
issued shall be included in a waiting list for pedicab registration plates to be created 
and administered by the Commissioner as provided in section 2-419 of this subchapter 
for the issuance of such registration plates that become available at any time.     
 (e)  Pedicab registration plates selected for assignment to prospective licensees shall 
be issued upon an applicant’s compliance with the following requirements: 
 1.  Prospective licensees who are selected to be assigned pedicab registration plates 
from an applicant pool for registration plates shall be issued a registration plate only 
upon completing the initial registration process by the forty-fifth calendar day after the 
date on which the Commissioner mailed  notification to the applicant of the offer to 
assign such pedicab registration plate.  However, for good cause shown, the 
Commissioner may extend the time period for no more than forty-five additional 
calendar days.  
2.  A prospective licensee must satisfy the following requirements to complete the 
initial registration process to be eligible to be issued a pedicab registration plate: 
(i)  Submit payment to the Department of the one hundred and ten dollar ($110) fee 
for initial pedicab business license, and the sixty dollar ($60) registration fee for each 
additional pedicab registration plate to be assigned in excess of the one pedicab 
included in the annual pedicab business license fee; 
(ii)  Furnish a list identifying the make, model and PIN for each pedicab to be 
inspected for issuance of an assigned pedicab registration plate;  
(iii)  Submit proof of the insurance coverage required by section 20-253 of the 
Administrative Code of the City of New York; and 
 
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(iv)  Present for inspection at the location(s) designated by the Department each 
pedicab for which a pedicab registration plate has been assigned to be issued.  
3.  Prospective licensees who present for inspection a pedicab for which a pedicab 
registration plate has been assigned within the time allowed for completing the initial 
registration process may present such pedicab for re-inspection within no later than 
fourteen days after the last date for completing the initial registration process.  
4.  A prospective licensee shall not be issued a pedicab business license until it has 
been issued at least one pedicab registration plate. 
(f)  An offer to issue a pedicab registration plate to a prospective licensee selected 
from a pool shall be revoked if: 
1.  A prospective licensee fails to complete all the requirements of the initial 
registration process with respect to any pedicab registration plate which has been 
assigned to be issued to such licensee.  The offer of assignment of such plate shall be 
revoked as of the day after the last day for completing the initial registration process. 
2.  A pedicab to which a registration plate had been selected to be issued fails to pass 
re-inspection within the time allowed as specified in paragraph three of subdivision (e) 
of this section. 
(g)  Any pedicab registration plate that is revoked as provided in subdivision (f) of this 
section shall be made available for assignment to applicants for pedicab registration 
plates on the waiting list. 
(h)   A prospective licensee shall be issued a pedicab business license upon the 
Commissioner determining the applicant meets all the requirements of sections 20- 
250, 20-252 and 20-253 of the Administrative Code of the City of New York and the 
requirements of this subchapter.  
§2-417 Proof of Insurance.  An applicant for a pedicab business license or a renewal 
thereof shall submit a certificate of insurance establishing that it maintains a policy of 
liability insurance for the amounts specified in section 20-253 of the Administrative 
Code of the City of New York issued by an insurer authorized in this state to write 
such coverage, or procured by an excess line broker pursuant to section 2118 of the 
New York State Insurance Law. 
§2-418 Termination of License upon Change of Beneficial Ownership.  (a) A 
pedicab business license shall be voided upon any person or organization becoming 
the beneficial owner of ten percent or more of the licensed business entity if such 
person or organization did not previously hold at least a ten percent interest, unless 
prior written approval from the Commissioner is obtained to authorize such change to 
a member of the immediate family or dependents of a natural person holding such 
interest in such entity upon the death or permanent disability of such person. 
(b)  If the Department determines there is reason to conclude that a license is void 
because a person or organization has become the beneficial owner of ten percent or 
more of the licensed business entity if such person or organization did not previously 
hold at least a ten percent interest in the business entity to which the license was 
issued, without receipt of the requisite authorization from the Commissioner, the 
Department will provide written notice to the licensee.  Within ten business days of 
the date of such written notice, the licensee has the opportunity to be heard by 
 
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submitting to the Department a written response objecting to the Department’s 
determination and providing written documentation that there has been no such 
change in the beneficial ownership in the business entity to which the license was 
issued. 
(c)  If the licensee fails to submit such response and documentation within such 
period, the Commissioner’s determination that the license is void shall be final. 
(d)  Upon receipt of the licensee’s written objection and submission of the 
documentation described above, the Commissioner shall make a determination 
whether there has been a change in the beneficial ownership as specified in 
subdivision (a) of this section in such business entity without having received 
authorization from the Commissioner.  The Commissioner’s determination that the 
license is void because of such change shall then be final. 
(e) The voiding of a pedicab business license because of such change in the beneficial 
ownership of ten percent or more in the business entity holding such license shall be 
effective as of the date of the unauthorized change in the beneficial ownership in the 
business entity.  Such voiding also invalidates all the pedicab registration plates issued 
to such licensee, and such licensee shall, within five business days of the voiding of 
the pedicab business license, surrender each such plate to the Commissioner.               
§2-419 Creation and Administration of Waiting List for Pending Pedicab 
Registration Plate Applications.  (a)  The Commissioner shall establish  a waiting 
list for pending pedicab registration plate applications in accordance with the 
following provisions. 
(b)  All applicants remaining in the established pedicab business applicant pool or the 
new business applicant pool after the three hundred and twenty-five pedicab 
registration plates have been assigned to be issued, and all persons who seek to apply 
for a pedicab business license and a pedicab registration plate after the last date for 
filing an application for being eligible to be included in the established business 
applicant pool or the new business applicant pool and before the waiting list is 
created, shall be included on the waiting list on the date it is created in accordance 
with the following procedures 
1. Each applicant to be included on the waiting list at the time of its creation shall be 
assigned a coded identifier that will be the basis for randomly selecting the order in 
which each applicant will appear on the waiting list for the assignment of a pedicab 
registration plate as it becomes available. 
2.  Any pedicab business licensee or any person applying for a pedicab business 
license who requests to be assigned a pedicab registration plate after the waiting list 
has been created shall be added to the end of the waiting list of applicants for pedicab 
registration plates in the order that the applications are received.   Whenever more 
than one application is received on the same day, such businesses shall be added in the 
order that each business is randomly selected from the applications received that day. 
(c)  Whenever a pedicab registration plate becomes available to be issued, such plate 
shall be offered for assignment to the first applicant on the waiting list.  Upon the 
mailing of the offer to issue the requested pedicab registration plate to such applicant 
to the address provided by such applicant, the applicant’s name shall be removed from 
 
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the waiting list. 
(d)  Any pedicab business licensee shall, within forty-five days after the 
Commissioner offers to assign a pedicab registration plate to such licensee, present the 
pedicab to be issued the assigned registration plate for inspection and registration, at 
the location specified by the Commissioner, and provide proof of an insurance policy 
that meets the requirements of section 2-417 of this subchapter.  The offer to assign a 
registration plate shall be void if a pedicab business licensee or a prospective licensee 
fails to present the pedicab for inspection with the required proof of insurance within 
the time specified in this subdivision.   
(e)  Any person on the waiting list who is not a licensee and who is offered the 
assignment of a pedicab registration plate shall file a completed application for a 
pedicab business license within fifteen days of the date the offer to assign such 
registration plate was mailed.  Unless such applicant is qualified to be issued such 
pedicab business license and presents the pedicab to be issued the registration plate for 
inspection and registration within forty-five days thereafter, at the location specified 
by the Commissioner, and provides proof of an insurance policy that meets the 
requirements of section 2-417 of this subchapter, the offer to assign such pedicab 
registration plate shall be void.      
(f)  A pedicab business licensee or prospective licensee who presents a pedicab for 
inspection and registration within the time specified by this section shall be able to 
present such pedicab for re-inspection within no more than fourteen days after the date 
it initially failed inspection.  If such pedicab fails to pass inspection within that period, 
the offer to assign the pedicab registration plate to such pedicab business licensee or 
prospective licensee shall be void. 
§2-420 Notification of Accidents relating to the Operation of Pedicabs.  (a) Every pedicab 
business licensee and pedicab driver shall submit to the Department, on a form provided for such 
purpose by the Department, a written report of every accident relating to a pedicab within 
twenty-four hours after the occurrence of such accident. Such completed form shall be signed by 
the pedicab business owner or his or her agent  and by the pedicab driver involved in the 
accident. 
(b)  Whenever any person sustains an injury requiring medical treatment or dies in an accident 
related to a pedicab, the pedicab business owner to whom is issued a pedicab business license 
shall immediately notify the Department by telephone and by facsimile transmission to the 
telephone numbers prescribed by the Department, and furnish such information as is sufficient to 
identify the time and location of the accident and the nature of the injuries sustained by any 
person. 
§2-421 Voiding of Pedicab Registration Plates upon the Voiding, Suspension or 
Revocation of a Pedicab Business License.  (a)  Whenever a pedicab business 
license is suspended or revoked, has been voided as provided in subchapter 9 of 
Chapter 2 of Title 20 of the Administrative Code of the City of New York or is not 
renewed within the time period  provided for renewal, all pedicab registration plates 
issued to such licensee shall be voided as of the date of the occurrence of such event 
unless the Commissioner for good cause shown, within five days thereafter, issues a 
written finding staying the voiding of such registration plates for a period not to 
 
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exceed thirty days thereafter, provided such licensee establishes to the 
Commissioner’s satisfaction that it will be able to comply with the requirements that 
were the basis for the voiding of such pedicab registration plates by the end of such 
stayed period. 
 (b) Whenever a registration plate is not renewed within fifty-nine days after it has 
expired, such plate shall be void. 
§2-422 Voiding of Pedicab Business License upon Lapse of Insurance Policy.   
(a) Upon a determination by the Department that a pedicab business license is void as 
provided in subdivision e of §20-253 of the Administrative Code of the City of New 
York because the policy of insurance required by §20-253 of such Code has lapsed, the 
Department shall immediately provide a written notice to the licensee of such 
determination. 
(b)  A licensee has up to fourteen days following the date of the written notice of such 
determination to have an opportunity to be heard by submitting to the Department a 
written objection to such determination with documentation demonstrating that the 
licensee has in force the policy of insurance required by §20-253 of the Administrative 
Code. 
(c)  If the licensee fails to submit such response with the required documentation 
within such period, the determination of the Department shall become final, and the 
license shall be void as of the date the policy lapsed. 
(d)  Upon receipt of the written response from the licensee, the Commissioner will 
make a final determination whether the policy of insurance required pursuant to §20- 
253 has lapsed.  
§2-423 Transfer of a Pedicab Registration Plate.  A licensee may transfer a 
registration issued to a pedicab identified on the list it has provided the Department 
from such pedicab to another pedicab of such licensee only if: 
(a) Such licensee requests the transfer in writing and identifies the pedicab that had 
been issued the registration plate, by the PIN listed with the Department, and the 
pedicab registration plate that is to be transferred and describes the pedicab, by its PIN, 
to which such pedicab registration plate is to be transferred. 
(b)  Such licensee presents: 
1. the pedicab to which the pedicab registration plate is to be transferred for inspection 
by the Department; and  
2.  either presents the pedicab registration plate that was removed from the pedicab to 
which it was issued or presents the pedicab from which the pedicab registration plate is 
to be removed for transfer to such other pedicab. 
(c)  The pedicab passes inspection and the Department affixes to it a pedicab 
registration plate that replaces the plate that had been issued to the pedicab from which 
it was transferred.    
 §2-424 Advertisements on Pedicabs.  Advertisement(s) may be placed on any panel on a 
pedicab provided that no advertisement shall be placed on the panel that displays the rates 
required to be posted pursuant to §20-254 of the Administrative Code of the City of New York 
or on the signs required to be posted pursuant to §20-260 of such Code, that no portion of such 
advertisement shall be reflectorized, illuminated, animated, or extend beyond the panel of the 
 
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pedicab, and that the content of such advertisement shall not violate any applicable provision of 
law.  
§2-245 Required Signs on Pedicabs.  (a)  Every pedicab shall have posted on the interior of the 
cab, where it is clearly visible at all times to any seated passenger, a sign with letters in at least 
twenty-eight point bold faced type containing the following information: 
Licensee:  (Insert name appearing on pedicab business license to which pedicab is registered or 
the DBA name of such licensee). 
Telephone Number: (Insert phone number of licensee). 
Pedicab Registration Number: (Insert registration number of pedicab). 
 “If you have a complaint about this business, contact the NYC Department of Consumer Affairs 
at:”  (Insert Department’s current complaint number and web address).  
(b)  The printing on the sign displaying the rate information that is required to be posted shall be 
in at least twenty-eight point type, and such sign shall be posted on the outside panel on each 
side of a pedicab where it shall be visible to persons prior to entering such pedicab. 
 
Statement of Basis and Purpose:  Section 20-104 (b) of the Administrative Code of 
the City of New York authorizes the Commissioner to promulgate and amend all rules 
he or she deems necessary to carry out the powers and duties of the Department. 
Section 20-108 of such Code authorizes the Commissioner to set the expiration dates 
of licenses issued pursuant to Chapter 2 of Title 20 of such Code. Subchapter 9, which 
was added to Title 20 by Local Law 19 for the Year 2007, authorizes the 
Commissioner, in section 20-265, to adopt such rules as necessary to carry out the 
provisions of Subchapter 9, which requires the licensing and regulation of pedicab 
businesses and pedicab drivers. Further, section 20-251(c) authorizes the 
Commissioner to prescribe by rule the process by which each pedicab business can 
register, including the initial application and issuance of pedicab business licenses, and 
provides that the selection process may consider whether the applicant has, prior to the 
enactment of the subchapter, owned or operated a pedicab and give priority to 
applicants who can provide proof of such previous ownership or operation of a 
pedicab. Additionally, Section 5 of such Local Law authorizes the Commissioner to 
take actions that are necessary to implement such local law prior to its effective date of 
September 20, 2007, including the promulgation of rules and the processing of 
applications for licenses required to be issued pursuant to such law. 
 
 Local Law 19 requires that pedicab businesses and pedicab drivers be licensed 
by the Department. It authorizes the Department to inspect pedicabs to determine 
whether they meet specified standards and to issue a maximum of 325 registration 
plates for pedicabs.  
 
 The rule amends section 1-02 of Chapter 1 and adds a new subchapter GG to 
Chapter 2 of Title 6 of the Rules of the City of New York to implement the 
requirements for the licensing and regulation of pedicab businesses and pedicab drivers 
and the registration of pedicabs.  

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 The amendment of section 1-02 of Chapter 1 of Title 6 of such rules sets 
November 1 of each year as the expiration date for the annual pedicab business 
licenses, with the exception that licenses issued before November 1 of 2007 shall be 
valid until November 1, 2008. The amendment of section 1-02 of Chapter 1 sets April 
30 of each year as the expiration date for the annual pedicab driver licenses.  These 
expiration dates were selected to minimize the impact on the monthly workload of the 
Department’s Licensing Division since it is during these months that the fewest 
number of licenses are subject to renewal.   
 
 The provisions of the new subchapter GG establish the procedures and 
requirements that apply to the issuance of the pedicab business licenses and pedicab 
driver licenses when Local Law No. 19 becomes effective.  The new subchapter also 
specifies the procedures to be followed to process applications for, and the issuing of, 
pedicab registration plates up to the maximum of 325 authorized to be issued Citywide, 
and up to the maximum of 30 to be issued to any pedicab business. 
 
 The method for allocating the 325 available pedicab registration plates 
represents the Department’s best efforts to fairly distribute such plates in anticipation 
of receiving more applications for such plates than are authorized to be issued.  Such 
distribution method is designed to reasonably and fairly accommodate the presence of 
large businesses established in the industry prior to the enactment of the law and 
thereby to effectuate the Council’s direction that the selection process consider and 
give priority to applicants who can provide proof of previous ownership or operation of 
a pedicab. 
 
 The new subchapter creates the waiting list for applicants requesting pedicab 
registration plates beyond those issued initially; prescribes how applicants are included 
in, ranked on and added to the waiting list; details the procedure for assigning to 
applicants on the waiting list any pedicab registration plates that become available; and 
specifies the maintenance of the waiting list.   
 
  The new subchapter gives pedicab businesses that were established prior to the 
enactment of Local Law 19 a priority in the assignment of available registrations for 
pedicabs and specifies the proof required to establish that a license applicant is an 
established business for purposes of the initial assignment of pedicab plates. The 
adopted  rules specify the insurance that is required to be carried by a pedicab business 
and the evidence that is required to be furnished to show that the coverage mandated 
by the law is in force.  
 
  Finally, the new subchapter specifies the prohibition of transfer of beneficial 
ownership in a license, prescribes the notifications to be made relating to accidents 
involving pedicabs, and prescribes the circumstances under which pedicab registrations 
are voided because of the revocation or suspension of pedicab businesses licenses or 
pedicab registration plates. 
 
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 The new rule is necessary for the proper implementation and effectuation of the 
requirements for licensing and regulating the pedicab industry as required by Local 
Law Number 19 for the Year 2007.