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                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 13, 2023
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 Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Transportation
 
 AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to requiring heli-
   copters be equipped with flight recorders, cockpit voice recorders and
   terrain awareness and warning systems

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 243 of the general  business  law,  as  amended  by
 chapter 843 of the laws of 1980, is amended to read as follows:
   §  243.  Aircraft;  construction,  design  and  airworthiness; federal
 registration. 1. The public safety  requiring,  and  the  advantages  of
 uniform  regulation making it desirable, in the interest of aeronautical
 progress, that aircraft to be avigated within this state should conform,
 with respect to design, construction  and  airworthiness,  to  standards
 prescribed  by the United States government with respect to avigation of
 aircraft subject to its jurisdiction,  it  shall  be  unlawful  for  any
 person  to  avigate  an aircraft within this state unless it is licensed
 and registered by the department of transportation of the United  States
 in  the  manner  prescribed  by  the lawful rules and regulations of the
 United States government then in force. The license  for  such  aircraft
 must  be  carried  and  conspicuously  posted  in  the aircraft while in
 flight. Such license also shall be presented for inspection, on  demand,
 to  any  peace officer, acting pursuant to his special duties, or police
 officer, or to any official, manager or person in charge of  an  airport
 or landing place where the aircraft may be.
   2. IT SHALL BE UNLAWFUL FOR ANY PERSON TO AVIGATE ANY HELICOPTER WITH-
 IN THIS STATE UNLESS SUCH HELICOPTER IS EQUIPPED WITH:
   A. A FLIGHT DATA RECORDER;
   B. A COCKPIT VOICE RECORDER; AND
   C. A TERRAIN AWARENESS AND WARNING SYSTEM.

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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   3.  The  provisions  of  this section shall not apply to aircraft used
 exclusively in the governmental service of the United  States,  or  used
 exclusively  in  the  service of the national guard or of one or more of
 the civil departments of this state.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
 it shall have become a law.