§ 59B-15 Operations – Business Premises.
RCNY § 59
(a)Maintenance of Physical Location. A For-Hire Base Owner must maintain a principal place of business in a commercially zoned area, from which affiliated Vehicles and Drivers can be dispatched. 35 RCNY § 59B-15(a)Fine: Suspension until requirement is met.Appearance REQUIRED (b) Minimum Number of Affiliated Vehicles.
(1)A Base must have at least ten affiliated Vehicles associated with the Base except when either of the following applies: (i) A Base that was first Licensed before January 1, 1988 will only be required to have at least five affiliated Vehicles.
(ii)A Livery Base that has an affiliated Accessible Vehicle is only required to have at least five affiliated Vehicles.
(2)A Street Hail Livery Base can meet the requirement of paragraph (1) by affiliating either or both of Street Hail Liveries or other licensed For-Hire Vehicles or, if the Base is also a Paratransit Base, Paratransit Vehicles and Street Hail Liveries. 35 RCNY § 59B-15(b)Fine: Suspension until minimum is metAppearance REQUIRED (c) Working Phone at the Base. A Base Owner must maintain a working telephone at the Base. 35 RCNY § 59B-15(c)Fine: Suspension until complianceAppearance REQUIRED (d) Dispatching of Vehicles from Base.
(3)The distance between the Base and the off-street parking facilities for Livery Vehicles must be one and one-half miles or less.
(4)The off-street parking facilities for Livery Vehicles must be in a location zoned for the operation of a parking facility.
(5)Waiver. The Chairperson can reduce the number of required off-street parking spaces or can waive that requirement entirely upon a determination that: (i) There are not enough legal off-street parking facilities in the vicinity of the Base to fulfill these requirements, (ii) An Applicant demonstrates to the satisfaction of the Chairperson that complying with the off-street parking requirements in paragraphs (1) and (2) would impose an economic hardship upon the Applicant.
(iii)The Chairperson will not reduce or waive the off-street parking requirements where it has been determined in an administrative proceeding that the Applicant, or a predecessor in interest, has violated any provision governing the transfer of the Base.
(iv)The Commission's decision to waive or reduce the off-street parking requirements: A. Will be made in writing, B. Will contain a detailed statement of the reasons for the decision C. Will be made a part of the Commission's approval of the application for the Base Station License.
