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Senate Bill S1282

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Requires all back seat motor vehicle passengers over the age of 7 to be restrained by a safety belt

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2009-S1282 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง1229-c, V & T L

2009-S1282 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires all back seat motor vehicle passengers over the age of 7 to be restrained by a safety belt.

2009-S1282 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2009-S1282 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  1282

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                            January 28, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen.  O. JOHNSON  -- 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
  all  back  seat  motor  vehicle passengers over the age of seven to be
  restrained by a safety belt

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1.  Paragraph  (c)  of subdivision 1 of section 1229-c of the
vehicle and traffic law, as amended by chapter 18 of the laws  of  2005,
is amended to read as follows:
  (c)  in  the  case  of any other back seat passenger [under the age of
sixteen], he or she is restrained by  a  safety  belt  approved  by  the
commissioner.
  S 2. Subdivision 3-a of section 1229-c of the vehicle and traffic law,
as  added  by  chapter  644  of  the laws of 2002, is amended to read as
follows:
  3-a. No person holding a class DJ learner's permit or class DJ license
issued pursuant to section five hundred two of this chapter, or a limit-
ed class DJ or MJ  license  issued  pursuant  to  section  five  hundred
three-a  of  this  chapter,  shall operate a motor vehicle in this state
unless such person is restrained  by  a  safety  belt  approved  by  the
commissioner, and all passengers under the age of four are restrained in
a  specially  designed seat which meets the federal motor vehicle safety
standards set forth in 49 C.F.R. 571.213 and which is either permanently
affixed or is affixed to such vehicle by a safety belt and, in the  case
of  any  other  passenger  [under  the  age  of  sixteen],  he or she is
restrained by a safety belt approved by  the  commissioner.  [No  person
sixteen  years  of  age  or over shall be a passenger in a motor vehicle
operated by a person holding a class DJ learner's  permit,  a  class  DJ
license  or  a  limited  class  DJ  license  unless  such  passenger  is
restrained by a safety belt approved by the commissioner.]
  S 3. This act shall  take  effect  on  the  first  of  September  next
succeeding the date on which it shall have become a law.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets

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