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
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
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 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-11es] 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. LBD03084-02-3A. 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.