A05858 Summary:
| BILL NO | A05858 |
| SAME AS | No Same As |
| SPONSOR | Bores |
| COSPNSR | |
| MLTSPNSR | |
| Amd §391-v, Gen Bus L | |
| Requires third-party food delivery services to verify that limited-use motorcycles operated by workers in the course of making deliveries for such third-party delivery service are legally registered. | |
A05858 Text:
Go to topSTATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5858 2025-2026 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY February 24, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. BORES -- read once and referred to the Committee on Consumer Affairs and Protection AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to requiring third-party food delivery services to verify that any limited-use motorcycle operated by workers in the course of such delivery service is legally registered The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "moped 2 registration verification act". 3 § 2. Subdivision 1 of section 391-v of the general business law is 4 amended by adding a new paragraph (e) to read as follows: 5 (e) "Worker" means a natural person who is hired or retained as an 6 independent contractor by a delivery business to make deliveries in 7 exchange for compensation, when such deliveries involve the operation by 8 such person of a limited-use motorcycle or bicycle with or without elec- 9 tric assist. 10 § 3. Section 391-v of the general business law is amended by adding a 11 new subdivision 3 to read as follows: 12 3. (a) A third-party food delivery service shall verify that any work- 13 er who elects to operate a limited-use motorcycle, as defined by section 14 one hundred twenty-one-b of the vehicle and traffic law, in the course 15 of making deliveries for such third-party food delivery service has 16 registered such limited-use motorcycle pursuant to section twenty-two 17 hundred sixty-one of the vehicle and traffic law. 18 (b) A third-party food delivery service shall record each such verifi- 19 cation required by paragraph (a) of this subdivision and retain such 20 record for at least one year following the termination of such worker's 21 employment by or engagement with such third-party food delivery service. 22 § 4. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD09233-02-5