Senate Bill S3024

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Requires passengers to use seatbelts in stretch limousines

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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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2019-S3024 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §1229-c, V & T L

2019-S3024 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires passengers to use seatbelts in stretch limousines; defines the term "stretch limousine".

2019-S3024 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2019-S3024 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3024
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 31, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. KENNEDY -- 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  requiring
   passengers to use seatbelts in stretch limousines
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Paragraphs (b) and (c) of subdivision 4 of  section  1229-c
 of  the  vehicle  and traffic law, as separately amended by chapters 232
 and 509 of the laws of 2004, are amended and  a  new  paragraph  (d)  is
 added to read as follows:
   (b)  "child  restraint system" shall mean any device, used in conjunc-
 tion with safety belts, designed for use in a motor vehicle to restrain,
 seat, or position children and which meets the applicable Federal  Motor
 Vehicle Safety Standards set forth in 49 C.F.R. 571.213; [and]
   (c)  "appropriate child restraint system" shall mean a child restraint
 system for which the occupant meets the occupant size and weight  recom-
 mendations of the manufacturer of such system[.]; AND
   (D) "STRETCH LIMOUSINE" SHALL MEAN ANY FOR HIRE VEHICLE WITH A CHASSIS
 WHICH  WAS MANUFACTURED AND THEN ALTERED FOR THE PURPOSE OF TRANSPORTING
 TEN OR MORE OCCUPANTS, INCLUDING THE DRIVER.
   § 2. Subdivision 9 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:
   9. Notwithstanding the provisions of subdivision four of this section,
 the provisions of this section shall  not  apply  to  buses  other  than
 school  buses AND STRETCH LIMOUSINES, and the provisions of subdivisions
 one, two, three and three-a of this section shall not apply to taxis and
 liveries.
   § 3. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
 have become a law.

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD01676-01-9

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