Bill Text: NY A08291 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Establishes the minimum age requirement to be able to ride in the front seat of a motor vehicle.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to transportation [A08291 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A08291-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8291

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      June 13, 2019
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        Introduced  by M. of A. PAULIN, RAYNOR, CRUZ, DINOWITZ, DeSTEFANO, SALKA
          -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. COOK,  ENGLEBRIGHT,  SIMON  --  read
          once and referred to the Committee on Transportation

        AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to establishing
          a  minimum  age  for  passengers  to ride in the front seat of a motor
          vehicle

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

     1    Section  1. Subdivision 2 of section 1229-c of the vehicle and traffic
     2  law, as amended by chapter 18 of the laws  of  2005,  paragraph  (c)  as
     3  amended  by  chapter  405  of  the  laws  of 2009, is amended to read as
     4  follows:
     5    2. No person shall operate a  motor  vehicle  unless  all  front  seat
     6  passengers  (a) [under] are over the age of [sixteen are restrained by a
     7  safety belt] twelve ; [or] and (b) [if they are under the age  of  four,
     8  by  a  specially  designed  seat  which is either permanently affixed or
     9  affixed to such vehicle by a safety belt as required by subdivision  one
    10  of this section, or in the event that the weight of such passenger under
    11  the  age  of four exceeds forty pounds, such passenger may be restrained
    12  (i) in an appropriate child restraint system as defined  in  subdivision
    13  four  of  this  section  used  with  combination lap safety and shoulder
    14  harness belts or (ii) by a lap safety belt in the event such vehicle  is
    15  not  equipped  with combination lap safety and shoulder harness belts or
    16  all the combination lap safety and shoulder harness belts are being used
    17  to properly restrain other passengers who are under the age of  sixteen;
    18  or  (c)  if  they  are  age  four  or older but under age eight, (i) are
    19  restrained in an appropriate child restraint system as defined in subdi-
    20  vision four of this section used with combination lap safety and  shoul-
    21  der  harness  belts  or  (ii) are restrained in a lap safety belt in the
    22  event such vehicle is not  equipped  with  combination  lap  safety  and
    23  shoulder  harness  belts  or all the combination lap safety and shoulder

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13067-01-9
        A. 8291                             2

     1  harness belts are being used to properly restrain other  passengers  who
     2  are] if under the age of sixteen are restrained by a safety belt.
     3    § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
     4  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.