NY State Senate Bill 2023-S2970

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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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Transportation Committee

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- In Committee Senate
- On Floor Calendar Assembly
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Jan 03, 2024	referred to transportation
Jan 26, 2023	referred to transportation

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

 S. 2970                             2
 
 The  reflex  reflector  mounted on the front wheel shall be colorless or
 amber, and the reflex reflector mounted  on  the  rear  wheel  shall  be
 colorless or red.
   (e)  Every  bicycle  when  in use during the period from one-half hour
 after sunset to one-half hour before  sunrise  shall  be  equipped  with
 reflective  devices  or  material  meeting  the standards established by
 rules and regulations promulgated by the commissioner; provided,  howev-
 er,  that  such  standards  shall  not be inconsistent with or otherwise
 conflict with the requirements of  subdivisions  (a)  and  (d)  of  this
 section.
   (F) IN ADDITION TO THE PROVISIONS SET FORTH IN SUBDIVISION (A) OF THIS
 SECTION,  EVERY  BICYCLE  SHALL HAVE AT LEAST ONE ADEQUATE RED REFLECTOR
 SECURELY ATTACHED TO THE REAR. SUCH REFLECTOR MAY BE AFFIXED TO THE REAR
 LAMP. NO REFLECTOR SHALL BE DEEMED ADEQUATE WITHIN THE MEANING  OF  THIS
 SUBDIVISION  UNLESS IT IS OF A SIZE AND TYPE APPROVED BY THE COMMISSION-
 ER.  THE PROVISIONS OF THIS SUBDIVISION WITH RESPECT TO REFLECTORS SHALL
 BE APPLICABLE, BOTH DAY AND NIGHT, WHENEVER THE BICYCLE IS ON  A  PUBLIC
 HIGHWAY.
   §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
 have become a law.

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