STATE OF NEW YORK
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9209
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
November 3, 2025
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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:
1 Section 1. Section 1242 of the vehicle and traffic law is amended by
2 adding a new subdivision 14 to read as follows:
3 14. No manufacturer engaged in the business of shipping bicycles with
4 electric assist in New York state shall ship any bicycle with electric
5 assist unless such bicycle with electric assist has permanently affixed
6 thereto, a lamp on the front which shall emit a white light visible
7 during hours of darkness from a distance of at least five hundred feet
8 to the front and with a red or amber light visible to the rear for three
9 hundred feet. At least one of such lights shall be visible for two
10 hundred feet from each side.
11 § 2. Section 1285 of the vehicle and traffic law is amended by adding
12 a new subdivision 4 to read as follows:
13 4. No manufacturer of electric scooters shall ship any such electric
14 scooters in New York state that are not equipped with a lamp and red
15 light as required under subdivision one of this section.
16 § 3. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
17 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD13941-01-5
