4903561 Taxicab Commission, DC - Notice of Proposed Rulemaking - Notice of Extension of the Public Comment Period

 

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA TAXICAB COMMISSION

 

NOTICE OF EXTENSION OF PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD

FOR PROPOSED RULEMAKINGS

 

The District of Columbia Taxicab Commission voted to approve the publication of proposed rulemaking for Chapters 2, 12, 14, 16, and 17 of DCMR Title 31 (regulations establishing a new class of service called Private Sedan Service) at the General Commission Meeting held on April 9, 2014.  Proposed rulemaking for Chapters 16, 17 and 2 (renamed as Chapter 99) are being published simultaneously with this Notice.  Proposed rulemaking for Chapters 12 and 14 were published on May 9, 2014 in the D.C. Register at 61 DCR 4743 and 4749.

 

The proposed rulemakings for Chapters 12 and 14 published May 9, 2014 provided a thirty- (30) day comment period. Through this Notice the Commission extends the comment period for Chapters 12 and 14 to coincide with the comment period for the proposed rulemakings for Chapters 16, 17, and 99, published today with this Notice. This extension is being authorized pursuant to authority set forth in Sections 8(c)(2), (3), (4), (5), (7), (19), 14, 20, and 20a of the District of Columbia Taxicab Commission Establishment Act of 1985 (“Establishment Act”), effective March 25, 1986 (D.C. Law 6-97; D.C. Official Code §§ 50-307(c)(2) (3), (4), (5), (7), (19), 50-313, 50-319, and 50-320 (2012 Repl. & 2013 Supp.)), D.C. Official Code § 47-2829 (b), (d), (e), (e-1), and (i) (2012 Repl. & 2013 Supp.), and Section 6(a) of the District of Columbia Administrative Procedures Act, approved October 21, 1968 (82 Stat. 1206; D.C. Official Code § 2-505(a) (2012 Repl.)).

 

Copies of the proposed rulemakings for Chapters 12, 14, 16, 17 and 99 can be obtained at www.dcregs.dc.gov or by contacting Jacques P. Lerner, General Counsel and Secretary to the Commission, District of Columbia Taxicab Commission, 2041 Martin Luther King, Jr., Avenue, S.E., Suite 204, Washington, D.C. 20020.