Bill Text: NY S06786 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to the definition of electric assisted bicycle.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-06-17 - COMMITTED TO RULES [S06786 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S06786-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6786
                    IN SENATE
                                    February 22, 2016
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  O'MARA -- 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, the  highway  law  and  the
          general  municipal  law,  in  relation  to  the definition of electric
          assisted bicycle
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  The  vehicle  and  traffic law is amended by adding a new
     2  section 102-c to read as follows:
     3    § 102-c. Electric assisted bicycle.  An  "electric  assisted  bicycle"
     4  shall mean a bicycle equipped with fully operable pedals and an electric
     5  motor of less than seven hundred fifty watts. An electric assisted bicy-
     6  cle  with a motor that provides assistance only when the rider is pedal-
     7  ing, and that ceases to provide assistance when the bicycle reaches  the
     8  speed of twenty miles per hour, is a class one electric assisted bicycle
     9  or a low-speed pedal-assisted electric bicycle.
    10    § 2. Section 121-b of the vehicle and traffic law, as amended by chap-
    11  ter 160 of the laws of 1981, is amended to read as follows:
    12    § 121-b. Limited use motorcycle. A limited use vehicle having only two
    13  or three wheels, with a seat or saddle for the operator, except electric
    14  assisted  bicycles as defined in section one hundred two-c of this arti-
    15  cle. A limited use motorcycle having a  maximum  performance  speed,  of
    16  more  than  thirty miles per hour but not more than forty miles per hour
    17  shall be a class A limited use  motorcycle.  A  limited  use  motorcycle
    18  having  a  maximum  performance speed of more than twenty miles per hour
    19  but not more than thirty miles per hour, shall be a class B limited  use
    20  motorcycle.  A limited use motorcycle having a maximum performance speed
    21  of not more than twenty miles per hour shall be a class  C  limited  use
    22  motorcycle.
    23    § 3. Section 125 of the vehicle and traffic law, as amended by chapter
    24  365 of the laws of 2008, is amended to read as follows:
    25    § 125. Motor  vehicles. Every vehicle operated or driven upon a public
    26  highway which is propelled by  any  power  other  than  muscular  power,
    27  except  (a)  electrically-driven mobility assistance devices operated or
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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