Bill Text: NY A08420 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Assembly Bill 8420 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Makes comprehensive motor vehicle insurance reparations (no-fault insurance) applicable to motorcycles.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-20 - print number 8420a [A08420 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A08420-Amended.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                         8420--A
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                     October 9, 2015
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  M. of A. ORTIZ, LUPARDO -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Insurance -- recommitted to the Committee on Insurance in
          accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged,  bill
          amended,  ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
          tee
        AN ACT to amend the insurance law, in relation to  making  comprehensive
          motor vehicle insurance reparations applicable to motorcycles
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Subsection (f) of section 5102  of  the  insurance  law  is
     2  amended to read as follows:
     3    (f) "Motor  vehicle" means a motor vehicle as defined in section three
     4  hundred eleven of the vehicle and traffic law and also includes fire and
     5  police vehicles, and motorcycles.  It shall not include any motor  vehi-
     6  cle  not  required  to carry financial security pursuant to article six,
     7  eight or forty-eight-A of the vehicle and traffic law [or a  motorcycle,
     8  as defined in subsection (m) hereof].
     9    §  2.  Subsections  (a)  and (f) of section 5103 of the insurance law,
    10  subsection (f) as amended by chapter  402  of  the  laws  of  1986,  are
    11  amended to read as follows:
    12    (a)  Every  owner's  policy  of  liability insurance issued on a motor
    13  vehicle in satisfaction of the requirements of article six or  eight  of
    14  the  vehicle  and  traffic  law  shall also provide for; every owner who
    15  maintains another form of financial  security  on  a  motor  vehicle  in
    16  satisfaction  of  the requirements of such articles shall be liable for;
    17  and every owner of a  motor  vehicle  required  to  be  subject  to  the
    18  provisions  of  this article by subdivision two of section three hundred
    19  twenty-one of the vehicle and traffic  law  shall  be  liable  for;  the
    20  payment of first party benefits to:
    21    (1)  Persons,  other  than  occupants  of  another motor vehicle [or a
    22  motorcycle], for loss arising out of the use or operation in this  state
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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