Bill Text: NY A10054 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires every person, corporation, association or partnership who rents helmets or provides helmets to customers as part of their business to ensure that such helmets are undamaged.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-02 - referred to consumer affairs and protection [A10054 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A10054-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          10054

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                       May 2, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. DILAN -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Consumer Affairs and Protection

        AN ACT to amend the general business law, in  relation  to  requirements
          for the rental of helmets

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

     1    Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may  be  cited  as
     2  the "safe helmet act".
     3    §  2. The general business law is amended by adding a new section 391-
     4  cc to read as follows:
     5    § 391-cc. Rental of helmets. 1. No person, corporation, association or
     6  partnership who rents helmets or provides helmets to customers  as  part
     7  of  their  business  shall  rent or provide a helmet that has previously
     8  sustained an impact.
     9    2. (a) (i) Every person, corporation, association or  partnership  who
    10  rents helmets or provides helmets to customers as part of their business
    11  shall  directly  inquire  from  every customer about whether any impacts
    12  have been sustained to a rented or provided helmet upon  the  return  of
    13  such helmet.
    14    (ii)  Every  person, corporation, association or partnership who rents
    15  helmets or provides helmets to customers as part of their business shall
    16  keep a written record of every notification of an impact provided  by  a
    17  customer pursuant to subparagraph (i) of this paragraph.
    18    (b)  No  person,  corporation,  association  or  partnership who rents
    19  helmets or provides helmets to  customers  as  part  of  their  business
    20  shall:
    21    (i)  charge a customer a fee or penalty if a helmet rented or provided
    22  to such customer sustained an impact while in  the  possession  of  such
    23  customer; or
    24    (ii)  provide  a  discount  or incentive to a customer for returning a
    25  rented or provided helmet undamaged.
    26    3. No  person,  corporation,  association  or  partnership  who  rents
    27  helmets or provides helmets to customers as part of their business shall
    28  store a helmet which has sustained an impact with undamaged helmets.
    29    §  3.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
    30  have become a law.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15322-02-4