| Date of Action |
Assembly Actions -
Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE |
|---|---|
| Jan 30, 2020 |
referred to transportation |
Senate Bill S7611
2019-2020 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
(D) 36th Senate District
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Transportation Committee
Actions
2019-S7611 (ACTIVE) - Details
2019-S7611 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER: S7611 Revised 1/30/2020
SPONSOR: BAILEY
TITLE OF BILL:
An act to amend the general business law, in relation to requiring heli-
copters be equipped with flight recorders, cockpit voice recorders and
terrain awareness and warning systems
PURPOSE:
The purpose of this bill is to ensure that helicopters are equipped with
mechanisms to help prevent against crashes, and to equip them with
recording devices to ensure that all flight data and cockpit conversa-
tions are accurately recorded.
SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS:
Section 1 of the bill amends section 243 of the general business law to
require that helicopters flown in New York State be equipped with a
flight data recorder, cockpit voice recorder, and a terrain awareness
2019-S7611 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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7611
I N S E N A T E
January 30, 2020
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Introduced by Sen. BAILEY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation
AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to requiring heli-
copters be equipped with flight recorders, cockpit voice recorders and
terrain awareness and warning systems
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Section 243 of the general business law, as amended by
chapter 843 of the laws of 1980, is amended to read as follows:
§ 243. Aircraft; construction, design and airworthiness; federal
registration. 1. The public safety requiring, and the advantages of
uniform regulation making it desirable, in the interest of aeronautical
progress, that aircraft to be avigated within this state should conform,
with respect to design, construction and airworthiness, to standards
prescribed by the United States government with respect to avigation of
aircraft subject to its jurisdiction, it shall be unlawful for any
person to avigate an aircraft within this state unless it is licensed
and registered by the department of transportation of the United States
in the manner prescribed by the lawful rules and regulations of the
United States government then in force. The license for such aircraft
must be carried and conspicuously posted in the aircraft while in
flight. Such license also shall be presented for inspection, on demand,
to any peace officer, acting pursuant to his special duties, or police
officer, or to any official, manager or person in charge of an airport
or landing place where the aircraft may be.
2. IT SHALL BE UNLAWFUL FOR ANY PERSON TO AVIGATE ANY HELICOPTER WITH-
IN THIS STATE UNLESS SUCH HELICOPTER IS EQUIPPED WITH:
A. A FLIGHT DATA RECORDER;
B. A COCKPIT VOICE RECORDER; AND
C. A TERRAIN AWARENESS AND WARNING SYSTEM.
3. The provisions of this section shall not apply to aircraft used
exclusively in the governmental service of the United States, or used
exclusively in the service of the national guard or of one or more of
the civil departments of this state.
§ 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
it shall have become a law.
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