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

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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-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         4076--A

                               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  --  committee discharged, bill
          amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said  commit-
          tee

        AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to requiring bicy-
          cles  advertised for sale or resale in New York state to have an iden-
          tifying 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  two  new  paragraphs  (d)  and (e) are is added to read as
     4  follows:
     5    (a) No bicycle manufactured or assembled on or  after  January  first,
     6  nineteen  hundred  eighty-nine  shall be sold [or], offered for sale, or
     7  offered and advertised for resale in this state unless it has an identi-
     8  fying serial number that distinguishes that bicycle from all other bicy-
     9  cles of that same make and model permanently  and  visibly  engraved  or
    10  stamped  in readily legible boldfaced figures at least one-eighth [inch-
    11  es] of an inch in height on the top surface of the top  crossbar  or  of
    12  the  uppermost cross support of the bicycle frame or on the head tube or
    13  on the toeplate not obstructed by the derailleur or gear  wheels  or  on
    14  the crank hanger; or, on a label, shield or plate permanently affixed in
    15  any  of  the foregoing locations in such a manner that the serial number
    16  will be readily visible and that such label, plate or shield  cannot  be
    17  removed without being defaced or destroyed.
    18    (d)  No  bicycle  manufactured or assembled on or after January first,
    19  nineteen hundred eighty-nine shall be  advertised  for  resale  in  this
    20  state  unless its identifying serial number is clearly and conspicuously
    21  posted in such advertisement for sale.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03084-02-3
        A. 4076--A                          2

     1    (e) If any person or entity fails to comply with the  requirements  of
     2  this section, the secretary of state shall issue such person or entity a
     3  warning,  that includes but is not limited to, information on compliance
     4  with this section. If the person or entity continues to fail  to  comply
     5  with the requirements of this section subsequent to receiving such warn-
     6  ing, the secretary of state may assess a civil penalty not to exceed two
     7  hundred  fifty dollars per  point of sale which fails to comply with the
     8  requirements of this section.
     9    § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day  after  it  shall
    10  have become a law.