Assembly Bill A9646

Signed By Governor
2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to seatbelts in a taxi or a livery

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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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2019-A9646 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S7623
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§1229-c & 375, V & T L (as proposed in S.7134 & A.8990)

2019-A9646 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides that a police officer shall only issue a summons for a violation of failure to wear a seatbelt in a taxi or a livery for minors eight years of age or older but under age sixteen to the parent or guardian, if the violation by such person occurs in the presence of such person's parent or guardian and where such parent or guardian is eighteen years of age or more; relates to safety postings in a taxi or a livery; amends the posting to say "Seatbelts must be available for your use. You must buckle up, it's the law."; further provides that such notices posted within taxis and liveries subject to registration and licensing by cities having a population of one million or more shall also be provided in the top two designated citywide languages

2019-A9646 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9646
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 30, 2020
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. MAGNARELLI, CRESPO, DE LA ROSA, JOYNER, PICHARDO,
   REYES -- read once and referred to the Committee on Transportation
 
 AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to seatbelts in
   a taxi or livery
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Paragraph (c) of subdivision 3-c of section 1229-c  of  the
 vehicle  and  traffic  law,  as  added by a chapter of the laws of 2020,
 amending the vehicle and traffic law relating to  safety  belt  require-
 ments  for  taxis  and livery vehicles, as proposed in legislative bills
 numbers S.  7134 and A. 8990, is amended to read as follows:
   (c) No person [shall operate a taxi or livery  unless  all  passengers
 who  are  age]  eight  YEARS OF AGE or older but under age sixteen [are]
 SHALL BE A  PASSENGER  IN  A  TAXI  OR  LIVERY  UNLESS  SUCH  PERSON  IS
 restrained  by  a  safety  belt approved by the commissioner.   A POLICE
 OFFICER SHALL ONLY ISSUE A SUMMONS FOR A VIOLATION OF THIS PARAGRAPH  TO
 THE  PARENT  OR  GUARDIAN OF SUCH PERSON IF THE VIOLATION BY SUCH PERSON
 OCCURS IN THE PRESENCE OF SUCH PERSON'S PARENT  OR  GUARDIAN  AND  WHERE
 SUCH  PARENT  OR GUARDIAN IS EIGHTEEN YEARS OF AGE OR MORE. SUCH SUMMONS
 SHALL ONLY BE ISSUED TO SUCH PARENT OR GUARDIAN AND SHALL NOT BE  ISSUED
 TO THE PERSON EIGHT YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER BUT UNDER AGE SIXTEEN.
   §  2.  Subdivision 5 of section 1229-c of the vehicle and traffic law,
 as amended by chapter 340 of the laws of 2017, is  amended  to  read  as
 follows:
   5.  Any  person  who  violates  the  provisions  of subdivision three,
 three-c or ten-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
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets

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