Bill Text: NY S06597 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Relates to making technical corrections relating to bicycles with electric assist and electric scooters.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Vetoed) 2019-12-26 - VETOED MEMO.288 [S06597 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-S06597-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6597 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN SENATE June 17, 2019 ___________ Introduced by Sen. RAMOS -- 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 making tech- nical corrections to provisions relating to bicycles with electric assist and electric scooters The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 8 of section 1282 of the vehi- 2 cle and traffic law, as added by a chapter of the laws of 2019, amending 3 the vehicle and traffic law relating to bicycles with electric assist 4 and electric scooters, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S.5294-A 5 and A.7431-B, is amended to read as follows: 6 (a) The governing body of any city, town or village may, by local law, 7 ordinance, order, rule or regulation, authorize and regulate shared 8 electric scooter systems within such city, town or village. No such 9 shared systems shall operate within a city, town or village except as 10 authorized by such local law, ordinance, order, rule or regulation. No 11 such shared electric scooter system shall operate on public highways in 12 a county with a population of no less than one million five hundred 13 [eighty-six] eighty-five thousand and no more than one million five 14 hundred eighty-seven thousand as of the two thousand ten decennial 15 census. For the purposes of this subdivision, the term shared electric 16 scooter system shall mean a network of self-service and publicly avail- 17 able electric scooters, and related infrastructure, in which an electric 18 scooter trip begins and/or ends on any public highway. 19 § 2. This act shall take effect on the same date and in the same 20 manner as section 6 of a chapter of the laws of 2019, amending the vehi- 21 cle and traffic law relating to bicycles with electric assist and elec- 22 tric scooters, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S.5294-A and 23 A.7431-B, takes effect. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD11288-16-9
