Assembly Bill A4865

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Requires fire insurance for any building where bicycles with electric assist are repaired, sold, rented, or stored for repair, sale or rental

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Current Bill Status - In Assembly 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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2025-A4865 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Consumer Affairs And Protection
Law Section:
General Business Law
Laws Affected:
Add §391-x, Gen Bus L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
A7100

2025-A4865 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires fire insurance for any building where bicycles with electric assist are repaired, sold, rented, or stored for repair, sale or rental; requires insurance coverage of at least one million dollars and an additional one hundred thousand dollars per tenant if tenants reside in such building.

2025-A4865 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4865
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 6, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of A. CHANG, NOVAKHOV, BROOK-KRASNY -- read once and
   referred to the Committee on Consumer Affairs and Protection
 
 AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to requiring  fire
   insurance  for  any  building  where bicycles with electric assist are
   repaired, sold, rented, or stored for repair, sale or rental

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The general business law is amended by adding a new section
 391-x to read as follows:
   §  391-X.  REPAIR,  SALE,  OR RENTAL OF BICYCLES WITH ELECTRIC ASSIST;
 FIRE INSURANCE. 1. ON AND AFTER JANUARY FIRST, TWO THOUSAND  TWENTY-SIX,
 ANY  OWNER  OF  A  BUILDING  WHERE  BICYCLES  WITH  ELECTRIC  ASSIST ARE
 REPAIRED, SOLD, RENTED, OR STORED FOR REPAIR, SALE OR RENTAL SHALL:
   (A) MAINTAIN FIRE INSURANCE COVERAGE OF AT LEAST ONE  MILLION  DOLLARS
 AND  AN  ADDITIONAL  ONE  HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS PER TENANT IF TENANTS
 RESIDE IN SUCH BUILDING; AND
   (B) MAINTAIN A CERTIFICATE OF INSURANCE DEMONSTRATING COMPLIANCE  WITH
 THIS SECTION.
   2.  WHENEVER  A  FIRE-RELATED EMERGENCY OR OTHER FIRE-RELATED INCIDENT
 OCCURS IN A BUILDING WHERE BICYCLES WITH ELECTRIC ASSIST  ARE  REPAIRED,
 SOLD  OR  RENTED, OR STORED FOR REPAIR, SALE OR RENTAL, NO BICYCLES WITH
 ELECTRIC ASSIST, INCLUDING BATTERIES OR ELECTRICAL SYSTEMS FOR  BICYCLES
 WITH  ELECTRIC  ASSIST,  SHALL BE STORED ON THE PREMISES FOR ANY PURPOSE
 UNTIL THE PREMISES HAVE BEEN INSPECTED AND DETERMINED TO BE  IN  COMPLI-
 ANCE WITH ALL RELEVANT LAWS AND REGULATIONS BY AN APPROPRIATE AND QUALI-
 FIED INSPECTOR AS DETERMINED BY THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT.
   3.  FOR  THE  PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION, "BICYCLE WITH ELECTRIC ASSIST"
 SHALL HAVE THE SAME MEANING AS SECTION ONE HUNDRED TWO-C OF THE  VEHICLE
 AND  TRAFFIC  LAW  AND SHALL FURTHER INCLUDE ANY BATTERIES OR ELECTRICAL
 SYSTEMS FOR A BICYCLE WITH ELECTRIC ASSIST.
   § 2. 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.

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