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Assembly Bill A10766

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to personal delivery services

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2025-A10766 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Ren §131-a to be §131-c, add §§131-a & 131-b, Art 34-E §§1290 - 1296, amd §§125, V & T L

2025-A10766 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Amends the definition of motor vehicle to exclude personal delivery devices; requires personal delivery device operators demonstrate an adequate safety record and proof of insurance; subjects personal delivery devices to traffic rules and laws applicable to pedestrians; sets speed limits

2025-A10766 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   10766
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               April 1, 2026
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. WRIGHT -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Transportation
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to personal
   delivery devices
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1. Section 131-a of the vehicle and traffic law is renumbered
 131-c and two new sections 131-a and 131-b are added to read as follows:
   § 131-A. PERSONAL DELIVERY DEVICE. A POWERED DEVICE THAT  IS  INTENDED
 FOR THE TRANSPORT OF PROPERTY; WEIGHS NOT MORE THAN FOUR HUNDRED POUNDS,
 EXCLUDING CARGO; AND IS CAPABLE OF NAVIGATING WITH OR WITHOUT THE ACTIVE
 CONTROL OR MONITORING OF AN INDIVIDUAL.
   §  131-B.  PERSONAL  DELIVERY  DEVICE OPERATOR. AN ENTITY OR ITS AGENT
 THAT EXERCISES ACTIVE OR PASSIVE PHYSICAL CONTROL OR MONITORING OVER THE
 NAVIGATION SYSTEM AND OPERATION OF A PERSONAL DELIVERY DEVICE.  PERSONAL
 DELIVERY  DEVICE  OPERATOR  SHALL  NOT INCLUDE A PERSON THAT REQUESTS OR
 RECEIVES PROPERTY TRANSPORTED BY A PERSONAL DELIVERY DEVICE; OR ARRANGES
 FOR AND DISPATCHES A PERSONAL DELIVERY  DEVICE  TO  TRANSPORT  GOODS  TO
 ANOTHER PERSON.
   § 2. Section 125 of the vehicle and traffic law, as amended by section
 3  of  part  XX of chapter 58 of the laws of 2020, is amended to read as
 follows:
   § 125. Motor vehicles. Every vehicle operated or driven upon a  public
 highway  which  is  propelled  by  any  power other than muscular power,
 except (a) electrically-driven mobility assistance devices  operated  or
 driven  by a person with a disability, (a-1) electric personal assistive
 mobility devices operated outside  a  city  with  a  population  of  one
 million  or  more, (b) vehicles which run only upon rails or tracks, (c)
 snowmobiles as defined in article forty-seven of this chapter,  (d)  all
 terrain  vehicles  as  defined in article forty-eight-B of this chapter,
 (e) bicycles with electric assist as  defined  in  section  one  hundred
 two-c of this article, [and] (f) electric scooters as defined in section
 one  hundred  fourteen-e  of  this  article,  AND  (G) PERSONAL DELIVERY
 DEVICES AS DEFINED IN SECTION ONE HUNDRED THIRTY-ONE-A OF THIS  ARTICLE.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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