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Assembly Bill A9209A

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to lights for bicycles with electric assist and electric scooters

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2025-A9209 - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S8948
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§1242 & 1282, V & T L

2025-A9209 - Summary

Requires any person, firm, association or corporation selling or leasing bicycles with electric assist and electric scooters in NYS to affix front and rear lights.

2025-A9209 - 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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2025-A9209A (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S8948
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§1242 & 1282, V & T L

2025-A9209A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires any person, firm, association or corporation selling or leasing bicycles with electric assist and electric scooters in NYS to affix front and rear lights.

2025-A9209A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  9209--A
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             November 3, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of A. CONRAD, BURDICK, McDONALD, YEGER, KASSAY, LEE,
   KAY -- read once and referred to the Committee  on  Transportation  --
   recommitted  to  the  Committee  on  Transportation in accordance with
   Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
   reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

 AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in  relation  to  equipping
   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. Subdivision 11 of section 1242 of the vehicle  and  traffic
 law is amended by adding a new paragraph (c) to read as follows:
   (C)  NO  PERSON, FIRM, ASSOCIATION OR CORPORATION ENGAGED IN THE BUSI-
 NESS OF SELLING OR LEASING BICYCLES WITH ELECTRIC ASSIST SHALL  SELL  OR
 LEASE ANY BICYCLE WITH ELECTRIC ASSIST UNLESS SUCH BICYCLE WITH ELECTRIC
 ASSIST  IS  EQUIPPED  WITH  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.  PROVIDED, HOWEVER, AT LEAST  ONE  OF  SUCH
 LIGHTS SHALL BE VISIBLE FOR TWO HUNDRED FEET FROM EACH SIDE.
   §  2.  Subdivision 9 of section 1282 of the vehicle and traffic law is
 amended by adding a new paragraph (c) to read as follows:
   (C) NO PERSON, FIRM, ASSOCIATION OR CORPORATION ENGAGED IN  THE  BUSI-
 NESS  OF  SELLING  OR  LEASING ELECTRIC SCOOTERS SHALL SELL OR LEASE ANY
 ELECTRIC SCOOTER UNLESS SUCH ELECTRIC SCOOTER IS EQUIPPED WITH A LAMP ON
 THE FRONT WHICH SHALL EMIT A WHITE LIGHT VISIBLE DURING HOURS  OF  DARK-
 NESS FROM A DISTANCE OF AT LEAST FIVE HUNDRED FEET TO THE FRONT AND WITH
 A  RED  LIGHT  VISIBLE  TO  THE  REAR  FOR THREE HUNDRED FEET. PROVIDED,
 HOWEVER, AT LEAST ONE OF SUCH LIGHTS SHALL BE VISIBLE  FOR  TWO  HUNDRED
 FEET FROM EACH SIDE.
   §  3. This act shall take effect one year after it shall have become a
 law.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD13941-04-6

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