Bill Text: NY A05364 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Exempts motorcyclists over the age of twenty-one from the requirement of wearing protective helmets of a type approved by the commissioner of motor vehicles when operating or riding a motorcycle.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-01-04 - referred to transportation [A05364 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-A05364-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         5364
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   February 16, 2011
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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  requiring
         certain motorcyclists to wear protective helmets
         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 UNDER THE AGE OF TWENTY-ONE  to
    5  operate  or  ride  upon a motorcycle unless he OR SHE wears a protective
    6  helmet of a type which meets  the  requirements  set  forth  in  section
    7  571.218  of  the federal motor vehicle safety standards as may from time
    8  to time be amended.  The commissioner is hereby authorized and  directed
    9  to  adopt regulations for helmets which are consistent with the require-
   10  ments as specified in section 571.218 of the federal motor vehicle safe-
   11  ty standards as may from time to time be amended. The police authorities
   12  of a city, town or village may  issue  a  permit  exempting  members  of
   13  organizations  sponsoring  or conducting parades or other public exhibi-
   14  tions from the provisions of this subdivision  while  such  members  are
   15  participating in such parades or other public exhibitions.
   16    S  2. This act shall take effect on the forty-fifth day after it shall
   17  have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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