Bill Text: NY A04076 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires bicycles advertised for sale or resale in New York state to have an identifying serial number in legible boldfaced figures in one of certain specified areas on the bicycle; requires advertisements for bicycles to clearly and conspicuously include such bicycles identifying serial number.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - ordered to third reading cal.113 [A04076 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A04076-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4076

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 9, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Consumer Affairs and Protection

        AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to requiring bicy-
          cles  advertised  for  sale  in  New York state to have an identifying
          serial number

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

     1    Section  1.  Paragraph  (a) of subdivision 1-a of section 391-c of the
     2  general business law, as added by chapter 6 of  the  laws  of  1986,  is
     3  amended and a new paragraph (d) is added to read as follows:
     4    (a)  No  bicycle  manufactured or assembled on or after January first,
     5  nineteen hundred eighty-nine shall be sold [or], offered  for  sale,  or
     6  advertised  for  sale  in this state unless it has an identifying serial
     7  number that distinguishes that bicycle from all other bicycles  of  that
     8  same make and model permanently and visibly engraved or stamped in read-
     9  ily legible boldfaced figures at least one-eighth [inches] of an inch in
    10  height  on the top surface of the top crossbar or of the uppermost cross
    11  support of the bicycle frame or on the head tube or on the toeplate  not
    12  obstructed  by the derailleur or gear wheels or on the crank hanger; or,
    13  on a label, shield or plate permanently affixed in any of the  foregoing
    14  locations  in such a manner that the serial number will be readily visi-
    15  ble and that such label, plate or shield cannot be removed without being
    16  defaced or destroyed.
    17    (d) No bicycle manufactured or assembled on or  after  January  first,
    18  nineteen  hundred eighty-nine shall be advertised for sale in this state
    19  unless its identifying serial number is clearly and conspicuously posted
    20  in such advertisement for sale.
    21    § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day  after  it  shall
    22  have become a law.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03084-01-3