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Assembly Bill A5364

2011-2012 Legislative Session

Provides that motorcyclists under the age of twenty-one shall wear protective helmets of a type approved by the commissioner when operating or riding a motorcycle

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2011-A5364 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S2974
Current Committee:
Assembly Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง381, V & T L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A4541, S2403
2013-2014: A6316, S1900
2015-2016: A3241, S2381
2017-2018: A218, S6055
2019-2020: A6895

2011-A5364 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Exempts motorcyclists over the age of twenty-one from the requirement of wearing protective helmets of a type approved by the commissioner of motor vehicles when operating or riding a motorcycle.

2011-A5364 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  5364

                       2011-2012 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            February 16, 2011
                               ___________

Introduced  by M. of A. LUPARDO -- read once and referred to the Commit-
  tee on Transportation

AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in  relation  to  requiring
  certain motorcyclists to wear protective helmets

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

  Section 1. Subdivision 6 of section 381 of  the  vehicle  and  traffic
law,  as  amended by chapter 471 of the laws of 1994, is amended to read
as follows:
  6. It shall be unlawful for any person UNDER THE AGE OF TWENTY-ONE  to
operate  or  ride  upon a motorcycle unless he OR SHE wears a protective
helmet of a type which meets  the  requirements  set  forth  in  section
571.218  of  the federal motor vehicle safety standards as may from time
to time be amended.  The commissioner is hereby authorized and  directed
to  adopt regulations for helmets which are consistent with the require-
ments as specified in section 571.218 of the federal motor vehicle safe-
ty standards as may from time to time be amended. The police authorities
of a city, town or village may  issue  a  permit  exempting  members  of
organizations  sponsoring  or conducting parades or other public exhibi-
tions from the provisions of this subdivision  while  such  members  are
participating in such parades or other public exhibitions.
  S  2. This act shall take effect on the forty-fifth day after it shall
have become a law.



 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD00453-01-1

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