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Assembly Bill A9209

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Requires manufacturers shipping bicycles with electric assist and electric scooters to provide lights

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2025-A9209 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§1242 & 1285, V & T L

2025-A9209 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires manufacturers shipping bicycles with electric assist and electric scooters in NYS to affix front and rear lights.

2025-A9209 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9209
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             November 3, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. CONRAD -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Transportation
 
 AN  ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to manufactur-
   ers providing bicycles with electric assist and electric scooters with
   lights
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Section 1242 of the vehicle and traffic law is amended by
 adding a new subdivision 14 to read as follows:
   14. NO MANUFACTURER ENGAGED IN THE BUSINESS OF SHIPPING BICYCLES  WITH
 ELECTRIC  ASSIST  IN NEW YORK STATE SHALL SHIP ANY BICYCLE WITH ELECTRIC
 ASSIST UNLESS SUCH BICYCLE WITH ELECTRIC ASSIST HAS PERMANENTLY  AFFIXED
 THERETO,  A  LAMP  ON  THE  FRONT WHICH 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 VISIBLE TO THE REAR FOR THREE
 HUNDRED  FEET.  AT  LEAST  ONE  OF  SUCH LIGHTS SHALL BE VISIBLE FOR TWO
 HUNDRED FEET FROM EACH SIDE.
   § 2. Section 1285 of the vehicle and traffic law is amended by  adding
 a new subdivision 4 to read as follows:
   4.  NO  MANUFACTURER OF ELECTRIC SCOOTERS SHALL SHIP ANY SUCH ELECTRIC
 SCOOTERS IN NEW YORK STATE THAT ARE NOT EQUIPPED WITH  A  LAMP  AND  RED
 LIGHT AS REQUIRED UNDER SUBDIVISION ONE OF THIS SECTION.
   §  3.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
 have become a law.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD13941-01-5

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