Bill Text: NY A09726 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to the definition of electric assisted bicycle.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-04-05 - referred to transportation [A09726 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A09726-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                          9726
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                      April 5, 2016
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        Introduced by M. of A. TITONE -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Transportation
        AN  ACT  to  amend  the vehicle and traffic law, the highway law and the
          general municipal law, in  relation  to  the  definition  of  electric
          assisted bicycle
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. The vehicle and traffic law is  amended  by  adding  a  new
     2  section 102-c to read as follows:
     3    §  102-c.  Electric  assisted  bicycle. An "electric assisted bicycle"
     4  shall mean a bicycle equipped with fully operable pedals and an electric
     5  motor of less than seven hundred fifty watts. An electric assisted bicy-
     6  cle with a motor that provides assistance only when the rider is  pedal-
     7  ing,  and that ceases to provide assistance when the bicycle reaches the
     8  speed of twenty miles per hour, is a class one electric assisted bicycle
     9  or a low-speed pedal-assisted electric bicycle.
    10    § 2. Section 121-b of the vehicle and traffic law, as amended by chap-
    11  ter 160 of the laws of 1981, is amended to read as follows:
    12    § 121-b. Limited use motorcycle. A limited use vehicle having only two
    13  or three wheels, with a seat or saddle for the operator, except electric
    14  assisted bicycles as defined in section one hundred two-c of this  arti-
    15  cle.  A  limited  use  motorcycle having a maximum performance speed, of
    16  more than thirty miles per hour but not more than forty miles  per  hour
    17  shall  be  a  class  A  limited use motorcycle. A limited use motorcycle
    18  having a maximum performance speed of more than twenty  miles  per  hour
    19  but  not more than thirty miles per hour, shall be a class B limited use
    20  motorcycle. A limited use motorcycle having a maximum performance  speed
    21  of  not  more  than twenty miles per hour shall be a class C limited use
    22  motorcycle.
    23    § 3. Section 125 of the vehicle and traffic law, as amended by chapter
    24  365 of the laws of 2008, is amended to read as follows:
    25    § 125. Motor vehicles. Every vehicle operated or driven upon a  public
    26  highway  which  is  propelled  by  any  power other than muscular power,
    27  except (a) electrically-driven mobility assistance devices  operated  or
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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