Bill Text: NY A09092 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires bicycles with electric assist and electric scooters be registered with the department of motor vehicles and have a license plate affixed to such bicycle with electric assist or electric scooter.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-22 - print number 9092a [A09092 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A09092-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         9092--A

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 6, 2024
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        Introduced  by M. of A. RAJKUMAR, SEAWRIGHT -- read once and referred to
          the Committee on Transportation -- committee discharged, bill amended,
          ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in  relation  to  requiring
          bicycles with electric assist and electric scooters be registered with
          the department of motor vehicles

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

     1    Section 1. This act shall be known and may be  cited  as  "Priscilla's
     2  law".
     3    §  2.  The  vehicle and traffic law is amended by adding a new section
     4  1244 to read as follows:
     5    § 1244. Registration of bicycles with electric assist. 1. Every  bicy-
     6  cle with electric assist as defined in section one hundred two-c of this
     7  chapter shall be registered and issued a number plate by the department.
     8  No person shall operate a bicycle with electric assist unless such bicy-
     9  cle  with electric assist shall have a distinctive number assigned to it
    10  by the commissioner and a number plate issued by the commissioner with a
    11  number corresponding to that of the certificate of registration.
    12    2. Such number plates shall be of  such  material,  form,  design  and
    13  dimensions  and contain or set forth such distinguishing number or other
    14  identification marks as  the  commissioner  shall  prescribe,  provided,
    15  however,  that there shall be at all times a marked contrast between the
    16  color of the number plates and that of the numerals or letters thereon.
    17    3. Each such number plate shall be conspicuously displayed on the rear
    18  of the bicycle, securely fastened so as to prevent the same from  swing-
    19  ing.
    20    4.  The  fee for such number plates shall be determined by the commis-
    21  sioner.
    22    5. Where there is a violation of  this  section,  the  fine  for  such
    23  violation shall be determined by the commissioner.
    24    §  3.  The  vehicle and traffic law is amended by adding a new section
    25  1290 to read as follows:

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14358-03-4
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     1    § 1290. Registration of electric scooters. 1. Every  electric  scooter
     2  as  defined  in  section one hundred fourteen-e of this chapter shall be
     3  registered and issued a number plate by the department. No person  shall
     4  operate  an electric scooter unless such device shall have a distinctive
     5  number  assigned  to it by the commissioner and a number plate issued by
     6  the commissioner with a number corresponding to that of the  certificate
     7  of registration.
     8    2.  Such  number  plates  shall  be of such material, form, design and
     9  dimensions and contain or set forth such distinguishing number or  other
    10  identification  marks  as  the  commissioner  shall prescribe, provided,
    11  however, that there shall be at all times a marked contrast between  the
    12  color of the number plates and that of the numerals or letters thereon.
    13    3. Each such number plate shall be conspicuously displayed on the rear
    14  of  the  electric  scooter,  securely fastened so as to prevent the same
    15  from swinging.
    16    4. The fee for such number plates shall be determined by  the  commis-
    17  sioner.
    18    5.  Where  there  is  a  violation  of this section, the fine for such
    19  violation shall be determined by the commissioner.
    20    § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.