New York City Council recently passed legislation that will lift the limit on the number of full-time vending permits for street vendors. The Bill,简介1116-B,将在2022年开始为未来十年的供应商创建4,000个新许可证。
“今天……是纽约市的街头小贩将永远记住的历史性一天。”Street Vendor Project(SVP)在支持该法案的集会中。
According to SVP, New York City caps the number of mobile food vendor permits at 5,000. Rather than request permits from the city to legally start and run their businesses, many vendors were forced into an underground market.
结果,通常每两年售价200美元的许可证已被交易最高25,000美元。Other vendors, foregoing a permit, risk high fines and arrest.
For years, SVP and street vendors have advocated to lift the caps on the number of permits, which has not changed since the 1980s.
经过十多年的组织,2016年New York City Council introduced《街道自动售货现代化法》。账单包装要求更高的许可证上限。
停滞了几年后,该法案在19日期间获得了大流行期间的动力exposed vulnerabilitiesfaced by the street vendor community.
周四,纽约市议会以34票对13票通过了该法案。现在将授予市长比尔·德·布拉西奥(Bill de Blasio),后者有望将其签署为法律。de Blasio在最近的新闻发布会他想看到一项计划很长时间来支持街头小贩的计划。
根据该法案,纽约市将在2022年至2032年之间以400批次开始颁发新许可证。它还创建了自动售货执法部门,该部门将致力于执行自动售货法。
“这是正确的事情,”理事会成员玛格丽特·钦(Margaret Chin), co-sponsor for the Bill, in the rally. “This legislation will give hope and opportunity to hard working street food vendors and will allow us to begin to fix this chaotic system that’s been going on for almost 40 years.”
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