Bill Text: NY A10222 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires commuter vans to maintain safety features, including but not limited to, a fully operational brake system, appropriate seat belts, security and back-up cameras, silent alarm systems, and personal or vehicle tracking devices such as global positioning systems (GPS).

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2022-05-31 - REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION [A10222 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A10222-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          10222

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                       May 6, 2022
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        Introduced  by  COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Cahill) --
          read once and referred to the Committee on Insurance

        AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in  relation  to  requiring
          certain safety features for commuter vans

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

     1    Section 1. The second  undesignated  paragraph  of  subdivision  1  of
     2  section  370  of the vehicle and traffic law, as amended by section 1 of
     3  part ZZ of chapter 59 of the  laws  of  2021,  is  amended  to  read  as
     4  follows:
     5    For damages for and incident to death or injuries to persons and inju-
     6  ry to or destruction of property: For each motorcycle and for each motor
     7  vehicle  engaged  in the business of carrying or transporting passengers
     8  for hire, having a seating capacity of not more than seven passengers, a
     9  bond or insurance policy with a minimum liability of  twenty-five  thou-
    10  sand dollars and a maximum liability of fifty thousand dollars for bodi-
    11  ly injury, and a minimum liability of fifty thousand dollars and a maxi-
    12  mum  liability  of  one hundred thousand dollars for death and a minimum
    13  liability of ten thousand dollars for injury to or destruction of  prop-
    14  erty;  for  each  motor  vehicle  engaged in the business of carrying or
    15  transporting passengers for hire, having a seating capacity of not  less
    16  than eight passengers, a bond or insurance policy with a combined single
    17  limit  of  at least one million five hundred thousand dollars for bodily
    18  injury or death to one or more persons, and  because  of  injury  to  or
    19  destruction  of property in any one accident; provided, further that for
    20  commuter vans that are engaged in the business of carrying or transport-
    21  ing passengers for hire, having a seating  capacity  of  not  less  than
    22  eight  passengers,  a  bond  or  insurance policy with a combined single
    23  limit of at least one million five hundred thousand dollars  for  bodily
    24  injury  or  death  to  one  or more persons, and because of injury to or
    25  destruction of property in any one accident.   Such commuter  van  shall
    26  maintain  safety  features, including but not limited to, a fully opera-
    27  tional brake  system,  appropriate  seat  belts,  security  and  back-up
    28  cameras,  silent alarm systems, and personal or vehicle tracking devices

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15732-01-2
        A. 10222                            2

     1  such as global positioning systems (GPS). For the purposes of this para-
     2  graph, the term "commuter van" shall have the same meaning as such  term
     3  is  defined  in section 19-502 of the administrative code of the city of
     4  New York.
     5    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.