Bill Text: NY A01306 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Provides that no person shall be a passenger in the back seat of a motor vehicle unless such person is restrained by a safety belt approved by the commissioner of motor vehicles.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 13-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2012-01-31 - REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION [A01306 Detail]
Download: New_York-2011-A01306-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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1306
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
(PREFILED)
January 5, 2011
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Introduced by M. of A. JEFFRIES, DINOWITZ, GALEF, MAYERSOHN, BENEDETTO
-- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. BRENNAN, COOK, GOTTFRIED, HOOPER,
MAGNARELLI, MAISEL, PHEFFER, WEISENBERG -- read once and referred to
the Committee on Transportation
AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to mandatory
seat belt use
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 1229-c of the vehicle and traffic
2 law, as added by chapter 365 of the laws of 1984, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 3. No person shall operate a motor vehicle unless such person is
5 restrained by a safety belt approved by the commissioner. No person
6 sixteen years of age or over shall be a passenger in [the front seat of]
7 a motor vehicle unless such person is restrained by a safety belt
8 approved by the commissioner.
9 S 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
10 ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD02675-01-1
