Bill Text: NY S07134 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 7134 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Requires passengers under 16 to wear safety belts in taxis and livery vehicles.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Passed) 2020-02-03 - signed chap.8 [S07134 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S07134-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          7134

                    IN SENATE

                                     January 8, 2020
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. HOYLMAN -- 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, in relation to safety  belt
          requirements for taxis and livery vehicles

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 3-c of section 1229-c  of  the
     2  vehicle and traffic law, as added by chapter 340 of the laws of 2017, is
     3  amended and a new paragraph (c) is added to read as follows:
     4    (b)  No  person  sixteen  years of age or over shall be a passenger in
     5  [the front seat of] a taxi or livery unless such person is restrained by
     6  a safety belt approved by the commissioner.
     7    (c) No person shall operate a taxi or livery unless all passengers who
     8  are age eight or older but under age sixteen are restrained by a  safety
     9  belt approved by the commissioner.
    10    §  2.  Subdivision 9 of section 1229-c of the vehicle and traffic law,
    11  as amended by chapter 340 of the laws of 2017, is  amended  to  read  as
    12  follows:
    13    9. Notwithstanding the provisions of subdivision four of this section,
    14  the  provisions  of  this  section  shall  not apply to buses other than
    15  school buses and the provisions of  subdivisions  one,  two,  three  and
    16  three-a  of  this  section  shall not apply to taxis and liveries except
    17  that the provisions of subdivision three-a  of  this  section  shall  be
    18  applicable  to  any  person  operating  a taxi or livery and to taxi and
    19  livery passengers age eight or older.
    20    § 3. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
    21  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.
                                                                   LBD14169-02-9