Assembly Bill A3644

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Requires children aged 5 to 15 on school buses equipped or required to be equipped therewith to use safety belts

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2009-A3644 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง1229-c, V & T L
Versions Introduced in 2011-2012 Legislative Session:
A1154, A8952

2009-A3644 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides that children ages 5 through 15 inclusive must use safety belts when riding on a school bus equipped with safety belts or required by law to be equipped with safety belts; driver is subject to a fine of up to $50 in the event of a violation.

2009-A3644 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  3644

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            January 27, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced  by  M.  of A. PHEFFER, CARROZZA -- read once and referred to
  the Committee on Transportation

AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in  relation  to  requiring
  certain  passengers  to use seat belts on school buses equipped there-
  with

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1. Subdivision 5 of section 1229-c of the vehicle and traffic
law, as amended by chapter 241 of the laws of 2007, is amended  to  read
as follows:
  5.  Any  person  who  violates  the provisions of subdivision three OR
ELEVEN-A of this section shall be punished by a  civil  fine  of  up  to
fifty  dollars.  Any  person  who violates the provisions of subdivision
one, two, eleven or thirteen of this section  shall  be  punished  by  a
civil  fine  of  not  less  than  twenty-five  nor more than one hundred
dollars. In any prosecution or proceeding alleging a violation of  para-
graph (b) of subdivision one or paragraph (c) of subdivision two of this
section,  it  shall be an affirmative defense that the passenger subject
to the requirements of such paragraphs was restrained by a  safety  belt
and  measures  more  than  four feet nine inches in height and/or weighs
more than one hundred pounds.
  S 2. Section 1229-c of the vehicle  and  traffic  law  is  amended  by
adding a new subdivision 11-a to read as follows:
  11-A.  NOTWITHSTANDING  THE  PROVISIONS  OF  SUBDIVISION  FOUR OF THIS
SECTION, NO PERSON SHALL OPERATE A SCHOOL BUS EQUIPPED WITH SEAT  SAFETY
BELTS  OR  REQUIRED  TO  BE  EQUIPPED WITH SEAT SAFETY BELTS PURSUANT TO
SUBDIVISION FIVE OF SECTION THREE HUNDRED EIGHTY-THREE OF  THIS  CHAPTER
UNLESS  ALL PASSENGERS OVER THE AGE OF FOUR AND UNDER THE AGE OF SIXTEEN
ARE RESTRAINED BY A SEAT SAFETY BELT.
  S 3. This act shall  take  effect  on  the  first  of  September  next
succeeding 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.
                                                           LBD06853-01-9

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