Bill Text: NY S06015 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to requiring rear passengers to wear seat belts.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-06 - REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION [S06015 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S06015-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         6015
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                     July 10, 2015
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       Introduced  by  Sen. SERRANO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
         printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
       AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to rear passen-
         ger seat belts
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  The opening paragraph of subdivision 1, subdivision 3 and
    2  subdivision 9 of section 1229-c of the  vehicle  and  traffic  law,  the
    3  opening  paragraph of subdivision 1 as amended by chapter 18 of the laws
    4  of 2005, subdivision 3 as added by chapter 365 of the laws of  1984  and
    5  subdivision 9 as amended by chapter 390 of the laws of 1996, are amended
    6  to read as follows:
    7    No  person  shall  operate a motor vehicle, OTHER THAN TAXIS, LIVERIES
    8  AND BUSES in this state unless:
    9    3. No person shall operate a  motor  vehicle  unless  such  person  is
   10  restrained  by  a  safety  belt  approved by the commissioner. No person
   11  sixteen years of age or over shall be a passenger in the front  OR  BACK
   12  seat  of  a  motor  vehicle unless such person is restrained by a safety
   13  belt approved by the commissioner.
   14    9. [Notwithstanding the provisions of  subdivision  four,  this]  THIS
   15  section  shall  [not]  apply  to  taxis, liveries, and buses [other than
   16  school buses] WITH THE EXCEPTION OF TRANSIT BUSES AS DEFINED IN  SECTION
   17  ONE HUNDRED EIGHT-A OF THIS CHAPTER.  UNDER THIS SUBDIVISION, ANY PENAL-
   18  TY  FOR  AN UNRESTRAINED BACK SEAT PASSENGER SHALL BE THE RESPONSIBILITY
   19  OF SUCH PASSENGER, WITH THE EXCEPTION  OF  CHILDREN  UNDER  THE  AGE  OF
   20  SIXTEEN,  WHERE  SUCH  PENALTY SHALL BE THE RESPONSIBILITY OF HIS OR HER
   21  PARENT OR GUARDIAN.
   22    S 2. The vehicle and traffic law is amended by adding  a  new  section
   23  108-a to read as follows:
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD09296-07-5
       S. 6015                             2
    1    S  108-A.  TRANSIT  BUS.  A MOTOR VEHICLE AS DEFINED UNDER SECTION ONE
    2  HUNDRED FOUR OF THIS CHAPTER INTENDED TO  ACCOMMODATE  STANDING  PASSEN-
    3  GERS, TRAVELING SHORT DISTANCES ON A FIXED ROUTE MAKING FREQUENT STOPS.
    4    S 3. This act shall take effect immediately.