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Assembly Bill A1306

2011-2012 Legislative Session

Provides that no person sixteen years of age or over shall be a passenger in the back seat of a motor vehicle unless such person is restrained by a safety belt

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2011-A1306 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S1337
Current Committee:
Senate Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง1229-c, V & T L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A225, S1169
2013-2014: A6657, S389
2015-2016: A2449, S1535
2017-2018: A1582, S2928
2019-2020: A6163

2011-A1306 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides that no person shall be a passenger in the back seat of a motor vehicle unless such person is restrained by a safety belt approved by the commissioner of motor vehicles.

2011-A1306 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  1306

                       2011-2012 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                               (PREFILED)

                             January 5, 2011
                               ___________

Introduced  by  M. of A. JEFFRIES, DINOWITZ, GALEF, MAYERSOHN, BENEDETTO
  -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. BRENNAN,  COOK,  GOTTFRIED,  HOOPER,
  MAGNARELLI,  MAISEL,  PHEFFER, WEISENBERG -- read once and referred to
  the Committee on Transportation

AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in  relation  to  mandatory
  seat belt use

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

  Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 1229-c of the vehicle and  traffic
law,  as added by chapter 365 of the laws of 1984, is amended to read as
follows:
  3. No person shall operate a  motor  vehicle  unless  such  person  is
restrained  by  a  safety  belt  approved by the commissioner. No person
sixteen years of age or over shall be a passenger in [the front seat of]
a motor vehicle unless such  person  is  restrained  by  a  safety  belt
approved by the commissioner.
  S 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
ing the date on which it shall have become a law.





 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD02675-01-1

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