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SECTION 399-NNN
Tags on charging cords of micromobility devices, mopeds, and bicycles with electric assist
General Business (GBS) CHAPTER 20, ARTICLE 26
* § 399-nnn. Tags on charging cords of micromobility devices, mopeds,
and bicycles with electric assist. 1. No person, firm, partnership,
association, or corporation shall manufacture, distribute, assemble,
recondition, sell or offer for sale at retail any micromobility device,
moped, or bicycle with electric assist as defined in section one hundred
two-c of the vehicle and traffic law unless there is a red tag affixed
to the charging cord of such micromobility device, moped, or bicycle
with electric assist which clearly and conspicuously states "UNPLUG WHEN
NOT IN USE". Such tag shall include additional consumer safety
information regarding safe usage of the product and its charging
equipment and shall be affixed to the cord near the end which is plugged
into the electricity source.

2. The department of state shall promulgate rules and regulations
providing guidance on the consumer safety information required to be on
the tag pursuant to subdivision one of this section.

3. The department of state shall post a model tag containing the
information outlined in subdivision one of this section that persons,
firms, partnerships, associations, and corporations can affix to such
charging cords as outlined in subdivision one of this section.

4. For the purposes of this section, the following terms shall have
the following meanings:

(a) "Lithium-ion battery" means a storage battery in which an
electrical current is generated by lithium ions embedded in a carbon
carbonate mixture or gelled polymer electrolyte.

(b) "Micromobility device" means an electric scooter as defined in
section one hundred fourteen-e of the vehicle and traffic law, an
electrical personal assistive mobility device as defined in section one
hundred fourteen-d of the vehicle and traffic law, or other personal
mobility device equipped with a lithium-ion or other storage battery,
including, but not limited to, a skateboard, unicycle, or other similar
wheeled device. The term "micromobility device" shall not include
bicycles with electric assist as defined in section one hundred two-c of
the vehicle and traffic law, wheelchairs or other electrically driven
mobility assistance devices as defined in section one hundred thirty-a
of the vehicle and traffic law, or any vehicle that is capable of being
registered with the department of motor vehicles.

(c) "Moped" means a limited use motorcycle as defined in section one
hundred twenty-one-b of the vehicle and traffic law.

* NB There are two § 399-nnn's