Bill Text: NY A06163 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides that no person sixteen years of age or over shall be a passenger in a motor vehicle unless such person is restrained by a safety belt approved by the commissioner of motor vehicles.

Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 10-1)

Status: (Passed) 2020-08-11 - signed chap.136 [A06163 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A06163-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6163
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 28, 2019
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        Introduced by M. of A. MOSLEY -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Transportation
        AN  ACT  to  amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to mandatory
          seat belt use
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1. Subdivision 3 of section 1229-c of the vehicle and traffic
     2  law, as added by chapter 365 of the laws of 1984, is amended to read  as
     3  follows:
     4    3.  No  person  shall  operate  a  motor vehicle unless such person is
     5  restrained by a safety belt approved  by  the  commissioner.  No  person
     6  sixteen years of age or over shall be a passenger in [the front seat of]
     7  a  motor  vehicle  unless  such  person  is  restrained by a safety belt
     8  approved by the commissioner.
     9    § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
    10  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.
                                                                   LBD10128-01-9