S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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2023-2024 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
January 6, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. BRONSON, MEEKS -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Transportation
AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to operation of
an all-terrain vehicle by a minor on public or private property
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Section 2410 of the vehicle and traffic law is amended by
adding a new subdivision 6 to read as follows:
6. NO PERSON SHALL OPERATE AN ATV BEARING A CERTIFICATION LABEL
CONFORMING TO ANSI/SVIA 1-2010 IN VIOLATION OF THE AGE RECOMMENDATION
WARNING LABEL AFFIXED BY THE MANUFACTURER. AN ATV NOT BEARING A CERTIF-
ICATION LABEL CONFORMING TO ANSI/SVIA 1-2010 OPERATING IN THE STATE BY A
PERSON WHO IS TEN OR ELEVEN YEARS OF AGE SHALL HAVE AN ENGINE SIZE OF
70CC OR LESS. AN ATV NOT BEARING A CERTIFICATION LABEL CONFORMING TO
ANSI/SVIA 1-2010 OPERATED IN THE STATE BY A PERSON WHO IS BETWEEN TWELVE
AND FIFTEEN YEARS OF AGE SHALL HAVE AN ENGINE SIZE OF 90CC OR LESS.
§ 2. Subdivision 2 of section 2406 of the vehicle and traffic law, as
added by chapter 402 of the laws of 1986, is amended to read as follows:
2. No person shall operate an ATV or ride as a passenger on an ATV ON
PUBLIC OR PRIVATE PROPERTY unless he is wearing a protective helmet of a
type approved by the commissioner pursuant to subdivision six of section
three hundred eighty-one of this chapter.
§ 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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