STATE OF NEW YORK
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5532
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 24, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. HOYLMAN-SIGAL -- 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 including a
class three bicycle with electric assist in the definition of limited
use motorcycle
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 121-b of the vehicle and traffic law, as amended by
2 chapter 160 of the laws of 1981, is amended to read as follows:
3 § 121-b. Limited use motorcycle. (a) A limited use vehicle having only
4 two or three wheels, with a seat or saddle for the operator. A limited
5 use motorcycle having a maximum performance speed, of more than thirty
6 miles per hour but not more than forty miles per hour shall be a class A
7 limited use motorcycle. A limited use motorcycle having a maximum
8 performance speed of more than twenty miles per hour but not more than
9 thirty miles per hour, shall be a class B limited use motorcycle. A
10 limited use motorcycle having a maximum performance speed of not more
11 than twenty miles per hour shall be a class C limited use motorcycle.
12 (b) A class three bicycle with electric assist as defined in subdivi-
13 sion (c) of section one hundred two-c of this article.
14 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
15 it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amend-
16 ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
17 tation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and
18 completed on or before such effective date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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