Bill Text: NY S02426 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires that motorcycles operated with passengers be equipped with foot pegs located such that the passenger can plant both of his or her feet on such pegs.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-01-08 - REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION [S02426 Detail]
Download: New_York-2013-S02426-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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2426
2013-2014 Regular Sessions
I N S E N A T E
January 17, 2013
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Introduced by Sen. DeFRANCISCO -- 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 foot pegs
for motorcycle passengers
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 13 of section 381 of the vehicle and traffic
2 law is renumbered subdivision 14 and a new subdivision 13 is added to
3 read as follows:
4 13. NO PERSON SHALL OPERATE A MOTORCYCLE ON ANY HIGHWAY WITH A PASSEN-
5 GER UNLESS SUCH MOTORCYCLE IS EQUIPPED WITH FOOT PEGS FOR SUCH PASSENGER
6 AND SUCH FOOT PEGS ARE LOCATED ON SUCH MOTORCYCLE AT A PLACE WHERE SUCH
7 PASSENGER CAN EASILY AND READILY PLANT BOTH OF HIS OR HER FEET ON SUCH
8 FOOT PEGS.
9 S 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
10 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD07272-01-3
