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Assembly Bill A9193

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to penalties for failure of an operator to return shared electric scooters and bicycles to a proper location

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2025-A9193 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Add §§1243-a & 1290, V & T L

2025-A9193 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires entities which operate a system of shared electric bicycles or scooters to impose penalties for failure of an operator or borrower to return a shared electric scooter or bicycle to a proper location.

2025-A9193 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9193
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             November 3, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. ZACCARO -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Transportation
 
 AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in  relation  to  penalties
   for  failure  of  an  operator  to return shared electric scooters and
   bicycles to a proper location

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  The  vehicle  and  traffic law is amended by adding a new
 section 1243-a to read as follows:
   § 1243-A. PENALTIES. ANY SHARED BICYCLE WITH ELECTRIC  ASSIST  SYSTEM,
 AS  DEFINED  IN  THIS  ARTICLE, OPERATING WITHIN THIS STATE SHALL IMPOSE
 MONETARY PENALTIES ON ANY USER OR BORROWER WHO FAILS TO RETURN A  SHARED
 BICYCLE  WITH  ELECTRIC ASSIST TO A PROPER LOCATION AS SPECIFIED, DESIG-
 NATED OR DIRECTED BY THE SYSTEM. SUCH PENALTY  SHALL  BE  IMPOSED  DAILY
 UNTIL THE DEVICE IS RETURNED TO THE PROPER LOCATION.
   §  2.  The  vehicle and traffic law is amended by adding a new section
 1290 to read as follows:
   § 1290. PENALTIES. ANY SHARED ELECTRIC SCOOTER SYSTEM OPERATING WITHIN
 THIS STATE SHALL IMPOSE MONETARY PENALTIES ON ANY USER OR  BORROWER  WHO
 FAILS TO RETURN A SHARED ELECTRIC SCOOTER TO A PROPER LOCATION AS SPECI-
 FIED,  DESIGNATED  OR  DIRECTED  BY  THE  SYSTEM.  SUCH PENALTY SHALL BE
 IMPOSED DAILY UNTIL THE DEVICE IS RETURNED TO THE PROPER  LOCATION.  THE
 TERM SHARED ELECTRIC SCOOTER SYSTEM SHALL MEAN A NETWORK OF SELF-SERVICE
 AND  PUBLICLY  AVAILABLE  ELECTRIC SCOOTERS IN WHICH AN ELECTRIC SCOOTER
 TRIP BEGINS AND/OR ENDS ON ANY PUBLIC HIGHWAY.
   § 3. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day  after  it  shall
 have become a law.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD13903-01-5

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