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Assembly Bill A8952

2011-2012 Legislative Session

Requires children aged 5 to 15 on school buses equipped or required to be equipped therewith to use safety belts

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2011-A8952 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง1229-c, V & T L
Versions Introduced in 2009-2010 Legislative Session:
A3644

2011-A8952 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides that children ages 5 through 15 inclusive must use safety belts when riding on a school bus equipped with safety belts or required by law to be equipped with safety belts; driver is subject to a fine of up to $50 in the event of a violation.

2011-A8952 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  8952

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                               (PREFILED)

                             January 4, 2012
                               ___________

Introduced by M. of A. WEPRIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
  on Transportation

AN  ACT  to  amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to requiring
  certain passengers to use seat belts on school buses  equipped  there-
  with

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

  Section 1. Subdivision 5 of section 1229-c of the vehicle and  traffic
law,  as  amended by chapter 241 of the laws of 2007, is amended to read
as follows:
  5. Any person who violates the  provisions  of  subdivision  three  OR
ELEVEN-A  of  this  section  shall  be punished by a civil fine of up to
fifty dollars. Any person who violates  the  provisions  of  subdivision
one,  two,  eleven  or  thirteen  of this section shall be punished by a
civil fine of not less  than  twenty-five  nor  more  than  one  hundred
dollars.  In any prosecution or proceeding alleging a violation of para-
graph (b) of subdivision one or paragraph (c) of subdivision two of this
section, it shall be an affirmative defense that the  passenger  subject
to  the  requirements of such paragraphs was restrained by a safety belt
and measures more than four feet nine inches  in  height  and/or  weighs
more than one hundred pounds.
  S  2.  Section  1229-c  of  the  vehicle and traffic law is amended by
adding a new subdivision 11-a to read as follows:
  11-A. NOTWITHSTANDING THE  PROVISIONS  OF  SUBDIVISION  FOUR  OF  THIS
SECTION,  NO PERSON SHALL OPERATE A SCHOOL BUS EQUIPPED WITH SEAT SAFETY
BELTS OR REQUIRED TO BE EQUIPPED WITH  SEAT  SAFETY  BELTS  PURSUANT  TO
SUBDIVISION  FIVE  OF SECTION THREE HUNDRED EIGHTY-THREE OF THIS CHAPTER
UNLESS ALL PASSENGERS OVER THE AGE OF FOUR AND UNDER THE AGE OF  SIXTEEN
ARE RESTRAINED BY A SEAT SAFETY BELT.
  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
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD00728-01-1

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