Assembly Bill A5858

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Requires third-party food delivery services to verify that limited-use motorcycles operated by workers in the course of making deliveries for such third-party delivery service are legally registered

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Current Bill Status - In Assembly Committee

  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2025-A5858 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S6845
Current Committee:
Assembly Consumer Affairs And Protection
Law Section:
General Business Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §391-v, Gen Bus L

2025-A5858 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires third-party food delivery services to verify that limited-use motorcycles operated by workers in the course of making deliveries for such third-party delivery service are legally registered.

2025-A5858 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5858
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 24, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. BORES -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Consumer Affairs and Protection
 
 AN ACT to amend the general  business  law,  in  relation  to  requiring
   third-party  food  delivery  services  to  verify that any limited-use
   motorcycle operated by workers in the course of such delivery  service
   is legally registered

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. This act shall be known and may  be  cited  as  the  "moped
 registration verification act".
   §  2.  Subdivision  1  of section 391-v of the general business law is
 amended by adding a new paragraph (e) to read as follows:
   (E) "WORKER" MEANS A NATURAL PERSON WHO IS HIRED  OR  RETAINED  AS  AN
 INDEPENDENT  CONTRACTOR  BY  A  DELIVERY  BUSINESS TO MAKE DELIVERIES IN
 EXCHANGE FOR COMPENSATION, WHEN SUCH DELIVERIES INVOLVE THE OPERATION BY
 SUCH PERSON OF A LIMITED-USE MOTORCYCLE OR BICYCLE WITH OR WITHOUT ELEC-
 TRIC ASSIST.
   § 3. Section 391-v of the general business law is amended by adding  a
 new subdivision 3 to read as follows:
   3. (A) A THIRD-PARTY FOOD DELIVERY SERVICE SHALL VERIFY THAT ANY WORK-
 ER WHO ELECTS TO OPERATE A LIMITED-USE MOTORCYCLE, AS DEFINED BY SECTION
 ONE  HUNDRED  TWENTY-ONE-B OF THE VEHICLE AND TRAFFIC LAW, IN THE COURSE
 OF MAKING DELIVERIES FOR SUCH  THIRD-PARTY  FOOD  DELIVERY  SERVICE  HAS
 REGISTERED  SUCH  LIMITED-USE  MOTORCYCLE PURSUANT TO SECTION TWENTY-TWO
 HUNDRED SIXTY-ONE OF THE VEHICLE AND TRAFFIC LAW.
   (B) A THIRD-PARTY FOOD DELIVERY SERVICE SHALL RECORD EACH SUCH VERIFI-
 CATION REQUIRED BY PARAGRAPH (A) OF THIS  SUBDIVISION  AND  RETAIN  SUCH
 RECORD  FOR AT LEAST ONE YEAR FOLLOWING THE TERMINATION OF SUCH WORKER'S
 EMPLOYMENT BY OR ENGAGEMENT WITH SUCH THIRD-PARTY FOOD DELIVERY SERVICE.
   § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD09233-02-5

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