Chair Feliz follows up on vest law enforcement

Thank you.

Thank you so much, Chairs Abreu and Epstein.

So two sets of questions, one related to enforcement at the street level and second at the enforcement at the point of sale.

But before that, I just want to ask some follow-up questions to the

the questions that our speaker asked about the laws that we passed in 2017 related to the vests and also the IDs that these drivers have to carry.

So who is in charge of enforcing this law?

Is it DOT and DCWP?

So DOT is able to enforce, it's also in NYPD's code, so I believe they are also two folks, but I'll defer to our colleagues at NYPD to speak more on that.

Right, so there's the street level piece, and then there's the corporate piece, the corporate regulatory piece.

You know, the corporate regulatory piece is really much more sort of for DOT.

It's not something that a patrol officer is going to do in terms of on the, you know, summonsing on the employer side.

With regard to the street-level enforcement, as I said earlier in response to the speaker's question, we're going to take that back and look very carefully at that in terms of the training that we're giving to the officers.

All right, so you're going to look at the training given to the officers.

What, if anything, though, has DLT or any of the administration done so far to get us to compliance with that rule?

So I know that this has been an issue over the course of several administrations.

So the introduction of the law early on over a decade ago started, I think, from a place where we're in a very different economy and use of our streets than we are today in terms of the devices and the companies that are out there.

So for the most part, at that time, DOT was enforcing at brick-and-mortar locations with sort of dedicated employee delivery workers and couriers.

Obviously, the landscape of the city has changed quite a bit since the original introduction of the bill.

Across the last two administrations, the Department of Transportation has sent letters about lack of compliance to the third-party delivery companies that are licensed by DCWP today and have been

rebuffed on those in the past in terms of formal compliance.

That is why it is so important to tighten up these laws in the proposed legislation, as well as other legislation that has passed recently affecting the CBL.

How long does the administration think it'll take to get us to full compliance with that rule, or at least fair compliance?

I think we'll need to have discussions with our partners and take a closer look at it.

What steps do you think we have to take to get us to a good amount of compliance with that rule?

Do you think we'll be able to make progress in six months?

The joint staff of DCWP and DOT in our conversations regularly with the app companies have given them, I believe, a March 2027 timeline to be in full compliance.

Okay.