Assembly Bill A1626

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Relates to requiring certain child passengers in a taxi or livery to be restrained by a child restraint system

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
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    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
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2023-A1626 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S890
Current Committee:
Assembly Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §1229-c, V & T L
Versions Introduced in 2021-2022 Legislative Session:
A6188, S8020

2023-A1626 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires that no person under four years of age shall be a passenger in a taxi or livery unless such person is restrained by a child restraint system; requires that no person four years of age or older but under age eight shall be a passenger in a taxi or livery unless such person is restrained in an appropriate child restraint system; establishes violations of such provisions shall be punished by a civil fine of up to fifty dollars.

2023-A1626 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1626
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 17, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M. of A. PAULIN, COLTON, SEAWRIGHT, THIELE, McDONOUGH --
   read once and referred to the Committee on Transportation
 
 AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in  relation  to  requiring
   certain  child  passengers  in  a taxi or livery to be restrained by a
   child restraint system

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1. Subdivision 3-c of section 1229-c of the vehicle and traf-
 fic law is amended by adding two new paragraphs (d) and (e) to  read  as
 follows:
   (D)  NO  PERSON UNDER FOUR YEARS OF AGE SHALL BE A PASSENGER IN A TAXI
 OR LIVERY UNLESS SUCH PERSON IS RESTRAINED IN A CHILD  RESTRAINT  SYSTEM
 AS  DEFINED  IN  PARAGRAPH  (B)  OF  SUBDIVISION FOUR OF THIS SECTION. A
 POLICE OFFICER SHALL ONLY ISSUE A SUMMONS FOR A VIOLATION OF THIS  PARA-
 GRAPH  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 UNDER FOUR YEARS OF AGE.
   (E) NO PERSON FOUR YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER BUT UNDER AGE EIGHT SHALL  BE
 A  PASSENGER  IN A TAXI OR LIVERY UNLESS SUCH PERSON IS RESTRAINED IN AN
 APPROPRIATE CHILD RESTRAINT SYSTEM AS DEFINED IN PARAGRAPH (C) OF SUBDI-
 VISION FOUR OF THIS SECTION. 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  EIGH-
 TEEN  YEARS  OF  AGE  OR MORE. SUCH SUMMONS SHALL ONLY BE ISSUED TO SUCH
 PARENT OR GUARDIAN AND SHALL NOT BE ISSUED TO  THE  PERSON  UNDER  EIGHT
 YEARS OF AGE.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD03642-01-3
 A. 1626                             2

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