Senate Bill S2250

Signed By Governor
2009-2010 Legislative Session

Requires bicycles to be equipped with a red or amber reflector for night use

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Archive: Last Bill Status Via A669 - Signed by Governor

  • 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-S2250 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A669
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §1236, V & T L

2009-S2250 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires bicycles to be equipped with a red or amber light for night use.

2009-S2250 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2009-S2250 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  2250

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                            February 17, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen.  DILAN  -- 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  reflector
  and lamp equipment on bicycles

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

  Section 1. Subdivision (a) of section 1236 of the vehicle and  traffic
law,  as  amended by chapter 860 of the laws of 1975, is amended to read
as follows:
  (a)  Every bicycle when in use during the period  from  one-half  hour
after  sunset  to  one-half hour before sunrise shall be equipped with a
lamp on the front which shall emit a white light visible during hours of
darkness from a distance of at least five hundred feet to the front  and
with  a  red  OR AMBER light visible to the rear for three hundred feet.
Effective July first, nineteen hundred  seventy-six,  at  least  one  of
these lights shall be visible for two hundred feet from each side.
  S 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
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.
                                                           LBD00606-01-9

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