Bill Text: NY S04614 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Makes comprehensive motor vehicle insurance reparations (no-fault insurance) applicable to motorcycles.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 0000-00-00 - [S04614 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-S04614-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4614--A 2015-2016 Regular Sessions IN SENATE April 1, 2015 ___________ Introduced by Sen. LANZA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Insurance -- recommitted to the Committee on Insurance in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the insurance law, in relation to making comprehensive motor vehicle insurance reparations applicable to motorcycles The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subsection (f) of section 5102 of the insurance law is 2 amended to read as follows: 3 (f) "Motor vehicle" means a motor vehicle as defined in section three 4 hundred eleven of the vehicle and traffic law and also includes fire and 5 police vehicles, and motorcycles. It shall not include any motor vehi- 6 cle not required to carry financial security pursuant to article six, 7 eight or forty-eight-A of the vehicle and traffic law [or a motorcycle,8as defined in subsection (m) hereof]. 9 § 2. Subsections (a) and (f) of section 5103 of the insurance law, 10 subsection (f) as amended by chapter 402 of the laws of 1986, are 11 amended to read as follows: 12 (a) Every owner's policy of liability insurance issued on a motor 13 vehicle in satisfaction of the requirements of article six or eight of 14 the vehicle and traffic law shall also provide for; every owner who 15 maintains another form of financial security on a motor vehicle in 16 satisfaction of the requirements of such articles shall be liable for; 17 and every owner of a motor vehicle required to be subject to the 18 provisions of this article by subdivision two of section three hundred 19 twenty-one of the vehicle and traffic law shall be liable for; the 20 payment of first party benefits to: 21 (1) Persons, other than occupants of another motor vehicle [or a22motorcycle], for loss arising out of the use or operation in this state EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD01373-02-6