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; requires that a third-party food delivery service shall not sell, share, or allow access to such information.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5858--B
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 24, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. BORES -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Consumer Affairs and Protection -- recommitted to the Committee on
Consumer Affairs and Protection in accordance with Assembly Rule 3,
sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as
amended and recommitted to said committee -- again reported from said
committee with amendments, ordered reprinted as amended and recommit-
ted to said committee
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.
8 § 3. Section 391-v of the general business law is amended by adding a
9 new subdivision 3 to read as follows:
10 3. (a) A third-party food delivery service shall verify that any work-
11 er who elects to operate a limited-use motorcycle, as such term is
12 defined by section one hundred twenty-one-b of the vehicle and traffic
13 law, in the course of making deliveries for such third-party food deliv-
14 ery service has registered such limited-use motorcycle pursuant to
15 section twenty-two hundred sixty-one of the vehicle and traffic law or
16 registered pursuant to the applicable laws of another state.
17 (b) A third-party food delivery service shall record each such verifi-
18 cation required by paragraph (a) of this subdivision and retain such
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 record for at least one year following the termination of such worker's
2 employment by or engagement with such third-party food delivery service.
3 (c) A third-party food delivery service shall not sell, share, or
4 allow access to such information collected and maintained pursuant to
5 this section unless required to comply with federal, state, or local
6 laws, rules, or regulations.
7 § 4. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
8 it shall have become a law.
