Bill Text: NY A01416 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires motorcycle users to wear helmets that meet the federal motor vehicle safety standards and which have been impact-tested by the U.S. department of transportation, the commissioner of motor vehicles or by an independent laboratory approved by the commissioner of motor vehicles.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-01-08 - referred to transportation [A01416 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-A01416-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         1416
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                      (PREFILED)
                                    January 9, 2013
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       Introduced  by M. of A. GANTT -- read once and referred to the Committee
         on Transportation
       AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation  to  motorcycle
         protective helmet safety standards
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Subdivision 6 of section 381 of  the  vehicle  and  traffic
    2  law,  as  amended by chapter 471 of the laws of 1994, is amended to read
    3  as follows:
    4    6. It shall be unlawful for any person  to  operate  or  ride  upon  a
    5  motorcycle  unless  he  OR SHE wears a protective helmet of a type which
    6  meets the requirements set forth in section 571.218 of the federal motor
    7  vehicle safety standards as may from time to time be  amended  AND  THAT
    8  HAS  BEEN  IMPACT-TESTED  BY THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTA-
    9  TION, THE COMMISSIONER OR BY AN INDEPENDENT LABORATORY APPROVED  BY  THE
   10  COMMISSIONER.    The  commissioner  is hereby authorized and directed to
   11  adopt regulations for helmets which are consistent with the requirements
   12  as specified in section 571.218 of  the  federal  motor  vehicle  safety
   13  standards  as  may  from  time  to  time  be  amended,  AND  FOR  HELMET
   14  IMPACT-TESTING, CONSISTENT WITH THIS SECTION.  The police authorities of
   15  a city, town or village may issue a permit exempting UP TO  TEN  members
   16  of  organizations sponsoring or conducting parades or other public exhi-
   17  bitions from the provisions of this subdivision while such  members  are
   18  participating in such parades or other public exhibitions.
   19    S  2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
   20  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD05556-01-3