Bill Text: NY A00202 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Defines autocycle and specifies provisions applicable to such motor vehicles.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-3)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - referred to transportation [A00202 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A00202-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           202
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                       (Prefiled)
                                     January 4, 2017
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        Introduced  by M. of A. LUPARDO -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Transportation
        AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law,  in  relation  to  defining
          autocycles
          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 124 to read as follows:
     3    §  124.  Autocycle.  A three-wheeled motor vehicle that has a steering
     4  wheel and seating that does not require the operator to straddle or  sit
     5  astride  and  is manufactured to comply with federal safety requirements
     6  for motorcycles.
     7    Notwithstanding any administrative rule or regulation to the contrary,
     8  the provisions of subdivisions six,  seven,  nine,  nine-a  and  ten  of
     9  section  three hundred eighty-one of this chapter shall apply to autocy-
    10  cles and autocycle operators.
    11    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02166-01-7