Bill Text: NY S04336 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Provides that no person sixteen years of age or over shall be a passenger in a motor vehicle unless such person is restrained by a safety belt approved by the commissioner of motor vehicles.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Passed) 2020-08-11 - signed chap.136 [S04336 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-S04336-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4336 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN SENATE March 7, 2019 ___________ Introduced by Sen. CARLUCCI -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed 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 § 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. LBD10128-01-9
