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a. Following any crash involving a driver licensed by the commission while operating a vehicle licensed by the commission where critical injury or death resulted to one or more persons, the commission shall, upon notification of such crash, review the results of the police department's investigation at or before the conclusion of such department's investigation. The commission shall further review the fitness of such driver to operate a vehicle licensed by the commission and take any enforcement action that it determines appropriate, unless such driver's commission issued license has been suspended, in which case such review may occur prior to the lifting of such suspension. The commission may summarily suspend the commission issued license of such driver while any fitness review or enforcement action is pending, consistent with the rules of the commission regarding summary suspensions. For purposes of this section, "critical injury" shall mean any injury determined to be critical by the emergency medical service personnel responding to any such incident. This section shall not limit in any way the commission's authority to summarily suspend a driver's commission issued license for other reasons.
b. On or before February 1, 2015 and quarterly thereafter, the commission shall provide to the speaker of the council and shall place on the commission's website, a written report detailing how many crashes the commission reviewed pursuant to subdivision a of this section in the prior quarter, how many summary suspensions occurred, and enforcement actions taken by the commission following such review.
Where a driver licensed by the commission has been issued a summons for or charged with one or more traffic related violations or crimes in a crash in which any person has suffered critical injury or death, the license issued to such driver by the commission may be summarily suspended consistent with the rules of the commission regarding summary suspensions, and, upon conviction of such driver of one or more of the violations or crimes stated in the summons or such charges and upon a determination that one or more of such violations or crimes for which conviction occurred was a cause of such critical injury or death, such license shall be revoked. A summary suspension pursuant to this section may be lifted pursuant to the rules of the commission or upon dismissal of all such charges or upon a finding of not guilty of all of the stated traffic related violations and crimes, except that the commission may continue to suspend such license pursuant to section 19-540 of this chapter. For purposes of this section, "critical injury" shall mean any injury determined to be critical by the emergency medical service personnel responding to such crash. This section shall not limit in any way the commission's authority to summarily suspend a driver licensed by the commission for other reasons.
On or before February 1, 2015 and quarterly thereafter, the commission shall for the prior quarter provide a report to the council and shall post on its website, the number of crashes involving a vehicle licensed by the commission. Such report shall disaggregate such crashes by the type of commission licensed vehicle and by whether critical injury or death resulted from such crashes. The commission shall also maintain within its records the number of crashes each licensed driver has been involved in while operating a commission licensed vehicle. For purposes of this section, "critical injury" shall mean any injury determined to be critical by the emergency medical service personnel responding to any such incident.
Except as provided below, every owner of a taxicab, for-hire vehicle, commuter van, or wheelchair accessible van shall post in at least one conspicuous place in the rear passenger compartment of such vehicle a sign stating the following: "ATTENTION: Assaulting A Driver Is Punishable By Up to Twenty-Five Years in Prison" and shall ensure that such sign remains displayed in such vehicle. The commission shall promulgate rules, consistent with this section, including but not limited to the size of the sign, the number of signs per vehicle, the specific location within the vehicle of such signs, and the penalty for failing to post such signs. The provisions of this section shall not apply to black cars and luxury limousines.
Editor's note: For related unconsolidated provisions, see Appendix A at L.L. 2014/055.
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