Prohibits sellers of bicycles with electric assist, electric scooters, and limited use motorcycles from selling to persons less than sixteen years of age; requires valid proof of age at the point of purchase; establishes penalties for violations of this requirement.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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9360--A
IN SENATE
March 5, 2026
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Introduced by Sens. ZELLNER, SCARCELLA-SPANTON, SKOUFIS -- read twice
and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee
on Transportation -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to requiring
all persons less than sixteen years of age to provide proof of age for
the purchase of bicycles with electric assist, electric scooters, and
class A and class B limited use motorcycles; and establishing penal-
ties therefor
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 11-a to read as follows:
3 11-a. No person, firm, association or corporation engaged in the busi-
4 ness of selling or leasing bicycles with electric assist shall sell or
5 lease any bicycle with electric assist to any person less than sixteen
6 years of age. Valid proof of age shall be required at the point of
7 purchase.
8 § 2. The vehicle and traffic law is amended by adding a new section
9 1290 to read as follows:
10 § 1290. Additional provisions applicable to electric scooters. No
11 person, firm, association or corporation engaged in the business of
12 selling or leasing electric scooters shall sell or lease an electric
13 scooter to any person less than sixteen years of age. Valid proof of age
14 shall be required at the point of purchase.
15 § 3. Section 2261 of the vehicle and traffic law is amended by adding
16 a new subdivision 7 to read as follows:
17 7. Sale of class A and class B limited use motorcycles to minors
18 prohibited. No person, firm, association or corporation engaged in the
19 business of selling limited use motorcycles shall sell a class A limited
20 use motorcycle or class B limited use motorcycle, as defined by section
21 one hundred twenty-one-b of this chapter, to any person less than
22 sixteen years of age. Valid proof of age shall be required at the point
23 of purchase.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 § 4. Section 1800 of the vehicle and traffic law is amended by adding
2 a new subdivision (j) to read as follows:
3 (j) Any person, firm, association, or corporation convicted of violat-
4 ing subdivision eleven-a of section twelve hundred forty-two of this
5 chapter or section twelve hundred ninety of this chapter, shall, for a
6 first offense thereof, be punished by a fine of not less than two
7 hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars. For a conviction of
8 a second violation, both of which were committed within eighteen months,
9 such person, firm, association or corporation shall be punished by a
10 fine of not less than five hundred dollars nor more than one thousand
11 dollars. For a conviction of a third violation and all subsequent
12 violations, all of which were committed within a period of eighteen
13 months, such person, firm, association or corporation shall be punished
14 by a fine of not less than one thousand dollars nor more than one thou-
15 sand five hundred.
16 § 5. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
17 have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
18 repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation of
19 this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and completed
20 on or before such date.
