Bill Text: NY A02660 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Specifies that class two bicycles with electric assist shall be those for which the electric motor cannot provide assistance when such bicycles reach a speed of twenty-eight miles per hour.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to transportation [A02660 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A02660-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2660

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 26, 2023
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        Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Transportation

        AN  ACT  to  amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to the defi-
          nition of class two bicycles with electric assist

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Subdivision (b) of section 102-c of the vehicle and traffic
     2  law, as added by section 1 of part XX of chapter 58 of the laws of 2020,
     3  is amended to read as follows:
     4    (b)  "Class two bicycle with electric assist." A bicycle with electric
     5  assist having an electric motor that may be used exclusively  to  propel
     6  such  bicycle, and that is not capable of providing assistance when such
     7  bicycle reaches a speed of [twenty] twenty-eight miles per hour.
     8    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.






         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05352-01-3