Bill Text: NY S01535 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended
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]
Download: New_York-2015-S01535-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1535--C 2015-2016 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 13, 2015 ___________ Introduced by Sens. DILAN, AVELLA, BOYLE, CARLUCCI -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee -- recommitted to the Committee on Transportation in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit- tee 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. Subdivisions 3, 5 and 9 of section 1229-c of the vehicle 2 and traffic law, subdivision 3 as added by chapter 365 of the laws of 3 1984, subdivision 5 as amended by chapter 241 of the laws of 2007 and 4 subdivision 9 as amended by chapter 390 of the laws of 1996, are amended 5 to read as follows: 6 3. No person shall operate a motor vehicle, including taxicabs, 7 liveries and other for hire vehicles, unless such person is restrained 8 by a safety belt approved by the commissioner. No person sixteen years 9 of age or over shall be a passenger in [the front seat of] a motor vehi- 10 cle, including taxicabs, liveries and other for hire vehicles, unless 11 such person is restrained by a safety belt approved by the commissioner. 12 5. Any person who violates the provisions of subdivision three of this 13 section shall be punished by a civil fine of up to fifty dollars. A 14 police officer shall only issue a summons for a violation of subdivision 15 three of this section by a person less than eighteen years old to the 16 parent or guardian of such person if the violation by such person occurs 17 in the presence of such person's parent or guardian and where such 18 parent or guardian is eighteen years of age of older. No person operat- EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD05942-06-6
