Senate Bill S6597

Vetoed By Governor
2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to making technical corrections

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Vetoed By Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2019-S6597 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A8430
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §1282, V & T L (as proposed in S.5294-A & A.7431-B)

2019-S6597 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to making technical corrections relating to bicycles with electric assist and electric scooters.

2019-S6597 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2019-S6597 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6597
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               June 17, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  RAMOS  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
 
 AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to making tech-
   nical corrections to provisions relating  to  bicycles  with  electric
   assist and electric scooters

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 8 of section 1282 of the vehi-
 cle and traffic law, as added by a chapter of the laws of 2019, amending
 the vehicle and traffic law relating to bicycles  with  electric  assist
 and electric scooters, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S.5294-A
 and A.7431-B, is amended to read as follows:
   (a) The governing body of any city, town or village may, by local law,
 ordinance,  order,  rule  or  regulation,  authorize and regulate shared
 electric scooter systems within such city,  town  or  village.  No  such
 shared  systems  shall  operate within a city, town or village except as
 authorized by such local law, ordinance, order, rule or regulation.   No
 such  shared electric scooter system shall operate on public highways in
 a county with a population of no less  than  one  million  five  hundred
 [eighty-six]  EIGHTY-FIVE  thousand  and  no  more than one million five
 hundred eighty-seven thousand as  of  the  two  thousand  ten  decennial
 census.   For the purposes of this subdivision, the term shared electric
 scooter system shall mean a network of self-service and publicly  avail-
 able electric scooters, and related infrastructure, in which an electric
 scooter trip begins and/or ends on any public highway.
   §  2.  This  act  shall  take  effect on the same date and in the same
 manner as section 6 of a chapter of the laws of 2019, amending the vehi-
 cle and traffic law relating to bicycles with electric assist and  elec-
 tric  scooters,  as  proposed  in legislative bills numbers S.5294-A and
 A.7431-B, takes effect.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD11288-16-9

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