Bill Text: NY A02157 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Provides that altered motor vehicles commonly referred to as "stretch limousines" which were altered on or after January 1, 2021, shall have at least two safety belts for the front seat and at least one safety belt for the rear seat for each passenger for which the rear seat of such vehicle was designed.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 24-4)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2020-01-21 - enacting clause stricken [A02157 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A02157-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 2157--B Cal. No. 92 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 22, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN, SANTABARBARA, FAHY, M. G. MILLER, TAYLOR, THIELE, ARROYO, D'URSO, DE LA ROSA, BLAKE, GOTTFRIED, ABBATE, WILLIAMS, MOSLEY, COOK, CRUZ, GRIFFIN, SMULLEN, WALSH, McDONOUGH, FALL, STECK, WEPRIN, BUTTENSCHON -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. DeSTEFANO, SIMON -- read once and referred to the Committee on Trans- portation -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee -- ordered to a third read- ing, amended and ordered reprinted, retaining its place on the order of third reading AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to the instal- lation of safety belts in stretch limousines, and the posting of notice therein The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Paragraph (c) of subdivision 1 of section 383 of the vehi- 2 cle and traffic law, as added by chapter 86 of the laws of 1968, is 3 amended and a new paragraph (d) is added to read as follows: 4 (c) A motor vehicle manufactured or assembled on or after January 5 first, nineteen hundred sixty-eight, at least one safety belt for each 6 passenger seat position[.]; 7 (d) An altered motor vehicle commonly referred to as a "stretch limou- 8 sine" which was altered on or after January first, two thousand twenty- 9 one, at least two safety belts for the front seat, and at least one 10 safety belt for the rear seat for each passenger for which the rear seat 11 of such vehicle was designed, and at least one safety belt for each 12 passenger seat position. 13 § 2. Section 383 of the vehicle and traffic law is amended by adding a 14 new subdivision 1-a to read as follows: 15 1-a. No altered motor vehicle commonly referred to as a "stretch 16 limousine" which was altered prior to January first, two thousand twen- 17 ty-one shall be sold or registered in this state and no such altered EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD01123-06-9A. 2157--B 2 1 motor vehicle altered prior to January first, two thousand twenty-one 2 registered in this state shall be operated in this state unless such 3 vehicle is retrofitted and equipped with safety belts approved by and 4 conforming to standards established by the commissioner as follows: at 5 least two safety belts for the front seat, and at least one safety belt 6 for the rear seat for each passenger for which the rear seat of such 7 vehicle was designed, and at least one safety belt for each passenger 8 seat position. 9 § 3. Subdivision 4-b of section 383 of the vehicle and traffic law, as 10 added by chapter 495 of the laws of 2003, is amended to read as follows: 11 4-b. Taxicabs [and], liveries, and stretch limousines. All seat safe- 12 ty belts installed in a taxicab or livery vehicle or in an altered motor 13 vehicle commonly referred to as a "stretch limousine" pursuant to this 14 section shall be clearly visible, accessible and maintained in good 15 working order, and no seat safety belt installed in such taxicab or 16 livery vehicle or altered motor vehicle shall be removed therefrom. 17 § 4. Subdivision 51 of section 375 of the vehicle and traffic law, as 18 added by chapter 495 of the laws of 2003, is amended to read as follows: 19 51. Taxicab [and], livery and stretch limousine notices. (a) Every 20 taxicab [and], livery, and altered motor vehicle commonly referred to as 21 a "stretch limousine" which was altered on or after January first, two 22 thousand twenty-one or retrofitted pursuant to subdivision one-a of 23 section three hundred eighty-three of this article registered in this 24 state shall have posted therein the following notice: "Seatbelts must be 25 available for your use. Please buckle up." 26 (b) The notices required to be posted pursuant to paragraph (a) of 27 this subdivision shall be posted in a manner legible and conspicuous to 28 passengers in all seating positions of such vehicles. 29 § 5. This act shall take effect January 1, 2021; provided, however, 30 that section two of this act shall take effect two years after this act 31 shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment 32 and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation 33 of this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and 34 completed on or before such effective date.