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Senate Bill S2970

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Requires a lighted lamp on the front and rear of every bicycle and a red reflector on the rear

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2023-S2970 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §1236, V & T L
Versions Introduced in 2021-2022 Legislative Session:
S4623

2023-S2970 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires a lighted lamp on the front and rear of every bicycle and a red reflector securely attached to the rear in a size and type as approved by the commissioner.

2023-S2970 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S2970 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   2970
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 26, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  MAYER  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation
 
 AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to requiring  a
   lightened  lamp  on  the  front  and  rear  of every bicycle and a red
   reflector on the rear

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Section  1236 of the vehicle and traffic law, subdivision
 (a) as amended by chapter 16 of the laws of 2009  and  subdivisions  (d)
 and  (e) as added by chapter 887 of the laws of 1976, is amended to read
 as follows:
   § 1236. Lamps and other equipment on bicycles.  (a) Every bicycle when
 in use during the period from one-half hour  after  sunset  to  one-half
 hour  before sunrise shall [be equipped with a] DISPLAY ONE LIGHTED lamp
 on the front [which] AND ONE ON THE REAR OF SUCH BICYCLE.   THE LAMP  ON
 THE FRONT shall emit a white light visible during hours of darkness from
 a distance of at least five hundred feet to the front and [with a red or
 amber light] THE LAMP ON THE REAR SHALL BE visible to the rear for three
 hundred  feet.  Effective  July  first, nineteen hundred seventy-six, at
 least one of these lights shall be visible for  two  hundred  feet  from
 each side.
   (b)  No  person  shall  operate a bicycle unless it is equipped with a
 bell or other device capable of giving a signal audible for  a  distance
 of  at  least  one  hundred  feet,  except  that  a bicycle shall not be
 equipped with nor shall any person use upon a bicycle any siren or whis-
 tle.
   (c) Every bicycle shall be equipped with a brake which will enable the
 operator to make the braked wheels skid on dry, level, clean pavement.
   (d) Every new bicycle shall be  equipped  with  reflective  tires  or,
 alternately,  a  reflex  reflector  mounted on the spokes of each wheel,
 said tires and reflectors to be of types approved by  the  commissioner.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD04672-01-3

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