Bill Text: NY S01535 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides that no person sixteen years of age or over shall be a passenger in a motor vehicle, including taxicabs, liveries and other for hire vehicles, unless such person is restrained by a safety belt approved by the commissioner of motor vehicles.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-26 - PRINT NUMBER 1535C [S01535 Detail]

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         1535
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                   January 13, 2015
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       Introduced  by  Sen.  DILAN  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
         printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation
       AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in  relation  to  mandatory
         seat belt use
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 1229-c of the vehicle and  traffic
    2  law,  as added by chapter 365 of the laws of 1984, is amended to read as
    3  follows:
    4    3. No person shall operate a  motor  vehicle  unless  such  person  is
    5  restrained  by  a  safety  belt  approved by the commissioner. No person
    6  sixteen years of age or over shall be a passenger in [the front seat of]
    7  a motor vehicle unless such  person  is  restrained  by  a  safety  belt
    8  approved by the commissioner.
    9    S 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
   10  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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