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Senate Bill S3604

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Relates to requiring helicopters be equipped with flight recorders, cockpit voice recorders and terrain awareness and warning systems

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2021-S3604 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A1122
Current Committee:
Senate Transportation
Law Section:
General Business Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §243, Gen Bus L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: S7611, A10202
2023-2024: S1658, A1100
2025-2026: S2299, A540

2021-S3604 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires helicopters be equipped with flight recorders, cockpit voice recorders and terrain awareness and warning systems.

2021-S3604 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2021-S3604 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3604
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 30, 2021
                                ___________
 
 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.

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD02073-01-1

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