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What is NYC AC § 20-1524?

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This section mandates that delivery services provide insulated food delivery bags to contracted delivery workers who have completed a minimum of six deliveries. The Department of Transportation may establish specific requirements for these bags. Applies to delivery services operating in New York City.

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§ 20-1524 Insulated food delivery bags.

AC § 20-1524

a.

1.A delivery service shall provide at its own expense, or ensure the availability of, an insulated food delivery bag to each contracted delivery worker retained by such service, provided that such worker has completed at least 6 deliveries of goods that are customarily transported in an insulated food delivery bag for such service. Such service may not require any such contracted delivery worker to provide an insulated food delivery bag at such worker's expense. Such an insulated food delivery bag provided to a contracted delivery worker that uses a bicycle to deliver goods must be designed for use in accordance with section 1235 of the vehicle and traffic law. The department, in consultation with the department of transportation, may establish requirements for an insulated food delivery bag provided to a contracted delivery worker that uses a vehicle or device other than a bicycle.

2.Nothing in this section shall be construed to require the use of insulated delivery bags by contracted delivery workers.

3.The department may promulgate rules as necessary to implement this section, including defining, for purposes of this section, goods that are customarily transported in an insulated food delivery bag, and establishing requirements for an insulated food delivery bag for a contracted delivery worker that use a vehicle or device other than a bicycle. (L.L. 2021/113, 10/24/2021, eff. 4/22/2022; Am. L.L. 2021/118, 10/24/2021, eff. 4/22/2022; Am. L.L. 2025/123, 9/10/2025, eff. 1/26/2026) Editor's note: For related unconsolidated provisions, see Appendix A at L.L. 2021/118 and L.L. 2025/123.

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