Senate Bill S6055

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Provides that motorcyclists over the age of twenty-one shall be exempt from the requirement to wear a helmet when operating or riding a motorcycle

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Transportation Committee

  • 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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2017-S6055 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A218
Current Committee:
Senate Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §381, V & T L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: S2403, A4541
2011-2012: S2974, A5364
2013-2014: S1900, A6316
2015-2016: S2381, A3241
2019-2020: A6895

2017-S6055 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides that motorcyclists over the age of twenty-one shall be exempt from the requirement to wear a helmet when operating or riding a motorcycle.

2017-S6055 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2017-S6055 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6055
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               May 10, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  ROBACH -- 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  certain
   motorcyclists from requirements to wear protective helmets
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 6 of section 381 of  the  vehicle  and  traffic
 law,  as  amended by chapter 471 of the laws of 1994, is amended to read
 as follows:
   6. It shall be unlawful for any person UNDER THE AGE OF TWENTY-ONE  to
 operate  or  ride  upon a motorcycle unless he OR SHE wears a protective
 helmet of a type which meets  the  requirements  set  forth  in  section
 571.218  of  the federal motor vehicle safety standards as may from time
 to time be amended.  The commissioner is hereby authorized and  directed
 to  adopt regulations for helmets which are consistent with the require-
 ments as specified in section 571.218 of the federal motor vehicle safe-
 ty standards as may from time to time be amended. The police authorities
 of a city, town or village may  issue  a  permit  exempting  members  of
 organizations  sponsoring  or conducting parades or other public exhibi-
 tions from the provisions of this subdivision  while  such  members  are
 participating in such parades or other public exhibitions.
   §  2. This act shall take effect on the forty-fifth day after it shall
 have become a law.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD02171-01-7

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