Buckle up in that taxi — or get slapped with a ticket.
Front-seat passengers in cabs and livery cars would be required to wear seat belts under a Vision Zero
proposal being drafted by the de Blasio administration, officials said.
So would children under 16, regardless of where they are sitting in the
hired vehicle, officials said.
State law exempts passengers in the front seat, and children younger
than 16, from mandatory seat belt use when traveling in a taxi, livery
car or other for-hire vehicle. The new legislation would close that
little-known loophole, officials said.
