Senate Bill S7623

Signed By Governor
2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to seatbelts in a taxi or a livery

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Archive: Last Bill Status Via A9646 - Signed by Governor

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

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2019-S7623 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A9646
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§1229-c & 375, V & T L (as proposed in S.7134 & A.8990)

2019-S7623 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides that a police officer shall only issue a summons for a violation of failure to wear a seatbelt in a taxi or a livery for minors eight years of age or older but under age sixteen to the parent or guardian, if the violation by such person occurs in the presence of such person's parent or guardian and where such parent or guardian is eighteen years of age or more; relates to safety postings in a taxi or a livery; amends the posting to say "Seatbelts must be available for your use. You must buckle up, it's the law."; further provides that such notices posted within taxis and liveries subject to registration and licensing by cities having a population of one million or more shall also be provided in the top two designated citywide languages

2019-S7623 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2019-S7623 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7623
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 31, 2020
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. HOYLMAN -- 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 seatbelts in
   a taxi or livery
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section  1.  Paragraph (c) of subdivision 3-c of section 1229-c of the
 vehicle and traffic law, as added by a chapter  of  the  laws  of  2020,
 amending  the  vehicle  and traffic law relating to safety belt require-
 ments for taxis and livery vehicles, as proposed  in  legislative  bills
 numbers S.  7134 and A. 8990, is amended to read as follows:
   (c)  No  person  [shall operate a taxi or livery unless all passengers
 who are age] eight YEARS OF AGE or older but  under  age  sixteen  [are]
 SHALL  BE  A  PASSENGER  IN  A  TAXI  OR  LIVERY  UNLESS  SUCH PERSON IS
 restrained by a safety belt approved by  the  commissioner.    A  POLICE
 OFFICER  SHALL ONLY ISSUE A SUMMONS FOR A VIOLATION OF THIS PARAGRAPH TO
 THE PARENT OR GUARDIAN OF SUCH PERSON IF THE VIOLATION  BY  SUCH  PERSON
 OCCURS  IN  THE  PRESENCE  OF SUCH PERSON'S PARENT OR GUARDIAN AND WHERE
 SUCH PARENT OR GUARDIAN IS EIGHTEEN YEARS OF AGE OR MORE.  SUCH  SUMMONS
 SHALL  ONLY BE ISSUED TO SUCH PARENT OR GUARDIAN AND SHALL NOT BE ISSUED
 TO THE PERSON EIGHT YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER BUT UNDER AGE SIXTEEN.
   § 2. Subdivision 5 of section 1229-c of the vehicle and  traffic  law,
 as  amended  by  chapter  340 of the laws of 2017, is amended to read as
 follows:
   5. Any person  who  violates  the  provisions  of  subdivision  three,
 three-c or ten-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
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets

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