Chair Feliz asks about point-of-sale enforcement procedures

Okay, and going back to the issue related to enforcement at the point of sale, can you talk to us about the procedures and operations to enforce the rules related or at the point of sale?

I know this could be challenging, so just wondering what the procedures are.

Not challenging at all.

It's something that we've done since 2021.

And again, phase one, we do this work in phases.

At that time, the focus was on mopeds.

We transitioned in 2026, January, to high-powered mopeds.

And out-of-class e-bikes and e-scooters.

So again, we do this work with the DOT.

First, we tapped into local precincts, 78 of them citywide, to survey their commands and identify retailers that are selling these devices.

So they came back to us with 71 retailers identified citywide selling these illegal devices.

We reach out to the DOT.

They do the educational outreach part of it, provide a flyer.

That flyer is instrumental to us in the sense that we provide it to our officers just to help again with why we're here today, make that distinction between whether devices legal or non-street legal.

It's helpful, just some of that language around it.

And also, we also provided that to the retailer.

So there has to be an education point.

You have to give notice to these retailers.

So after we do that with the flyers, then inspections, we start, and then enforcement.

So those are the steps that we've taken.

And again, like I mentioned, working again with the DOT.

63 stores were inspected as of September 21.

From those 63 retail stores, nine e-bikes were seized from three locations.

And again, this is citywide.

Nine old summonses were issued for motorized scooter noncompliance.

57 criminal summonses were issued for other retail violations.

For the most part, repeat, we go to the same locations.

If we have to expand this, we'll do so.

But again, we work hand-in-hand with the DOT on this.