STATE OF NEW YORK
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3604
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 29, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. ORTIZ -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Consumer Affairs and Protection
AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to the sale of
electronically motorized boards
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The general business law is amended by adding a new section
2 391-u to read as follows:
3 § 391-u. Sale of electronically motorized boards. 1. No electron-
4 ically motorized board manufactured or assembled on or after January
5 first, two thousand twenty-one shall be sold in this state unless such
6 electronically motorized board is manufactured or assembled in compli-
7 ance with rules and regulations promulgated by the commissioner pursuant
8 to subdivision two of this section.
9 2. The commissioner of the department of motor vehicles shall promul-
10 gate rules and regulations pertaining to safety standards and warning
11 labels that shall govern the manufacture, assembly and distribution of
12 electronically motorized boards until such time as the federal consumer
13 product safety commission or any successor commission or agency may
14 promulgate such rules and regulations.
15 3. An electronically motorized board shall only be sold to an individ-
16 ual having attained the age of fifteen. An electronically motorized
17 board shall be operated only by a person who is fifteen years of age or
18 older.
19 4. For the purposes of this section, the term "electronically motor-
20 ized board" shall mean any wheeled device that has a floorboard designed
21 to be stood upon when riding that is not greater than sixty inches deep
22 and eighteen inches wide, is designed to transport only one person, and
23 has an electric propulsion system averaging less than one thousand
24 watts, the maximum speed of which, when powered solely by a propulsion
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 system on a paved level surface, is no more than twenty miles per hour.
2 The device may be designed to also be powered by human propulsion.
3 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
4 ing the date on which it shall have become a law. Effective immediate-
5 ly, the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation
6 necessary for the implementation of this act on its effective date are
7 authorized and directed to be made and completed on or before such date.
