STATE OF NEW YORK
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8420--A
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
October 9, 2015
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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.
LBD01373-03-6