§ 1642-a. Bus permit system in cities having a population of one\nmillion or more. 1. For the purposes of this section, the following\nterms shall have the following meanings:\n a. "Charter bus" shall mean a bus transporting passengers for\ncompensation in chartered party.\n b. "Chartered party" shall mean a group of persons who, pursuant to a\ncommon purpose and under a single contract and at a fixed charge, have\nacquired exclusive use of a bus to travel together as a group to a\nspecific destination or for a particular itinerary either agreed upon in\nadvance or modified after having left the place of origin by such group.\n c. "Community board" shall mean a community board as defined in\nsection twenty-eight hundred of the New York city charter.\n d. "Intercity bus" shall mean a bus that transports the general public\nbetween a city having a population of one million or more and any\nlocation outside of such city in scheduled bus service. Provided,\nhowever, that such term shall not include a school bus; or a bus\nproviding public transportation; or a charter bus.\n e. "Metropolitan transportation authority" shall mean the corporation\ncreated by section twelve hundred sixty-three of the public authorities\nlaw.\n f. "Public transportation" shall mean:\n (i) mass transportation services provided to the general public by any\npublic benefit corporation constituting a transportation authority, or a\nsubsidiary thereof, or any public transportation corporation constituted\nas an instrumentality of a state, or a subsidiary thereof, directly or\nthrough a contact with another entity, or\n (ii) mass transportation services provided to the general public by\nany county, city, town or village directly or through a contract with\nanother entity pursuant to section one hundred nineteen-r of the general\nmunicipal law, or provided to the general public by another state or any\ncounty, city, town or village in a state other than New York directly or\nthrough a contract with another entity pursuant to a similar law of such\nother state.\n 2. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, any city\nhaving a population of one million or more may prohibit intercity buses\nfrom loading or unloading passengers on streets within such city except\non designated streets and at designated locations on such streets\npursuant to a permit in accordance with the provisions of this section.\n 3. The mayor of such city which acts pursuant to subdivision two of\nthis section shall designate an agency to promulgate rules to implement\nthis section. Such city agency shall promulgate such rules which shall\ncomply with chapter forty-five of the New York city charter including a\npublic hearing. Such rules shall:\n a. Establish a system of permits for allocating locations on\ndesignated streets where intercity buses may load and unload passengers,\nand prohibit loading and unloading of passengers other than at such\ndesignated locations on such designated streets pursuant to a permit;\n b. Require the owner or operator of an intercity bus to submit an\napplication for a permit for each proposed location for loading and\nunloading of passengers. Such application shall include the following\ninformation:\n (i) The name, address, telephone number, e-mail address and motor\ncarrier number of the intercity bus owner or operator, the United States\ndepartment of transportation number and/or New York state department of\ntransportation number for each bus that would use such proposed\nlocation;\n (ii) A proposed location or locations to be used by the specified\nintercity buses for loading or unloading passengers, and two or more\nalternative proposed locations;\n (iii) The number of intercity buses that would use the proposed\nlocation or locations;\n (iv) The number of passengers anticipated for each such intercity bus;\n (v) The proposed intercity bus schedule;\n (vi) The planned garage or parking location of the intercity buses\nduri
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