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A04541 Summary:

BILL NO	A04541
SAME AS	SAME AS S02403
SPONSOR	Parment (MS)
COSPNSR	Lupardo
MLTSPNSR
Amd S381, V & T L
Exempts motorcyclists over the age of twenty-one from the requirement of wearing protective helmets of a type approved by the commissioner of motor vehicles when operating or riding a motorcycle.

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A04541 Actions:

BILL NO	A04541
02/04/2009	referred to transportation
01/06/2010	referred to transportation

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A04541 Floor Votes:

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A04541 Text:

 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          4541
 
                               2009-2010 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                    February 4, 2009
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        Introduced by M. of A. PARMENT, LUPARDO -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Transportation
 
        AN  ACT  to  amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to requiring
          certain motorcyclists to wear protective helmets
 
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 

     1    Section  1.  Subdivision  6  of section 381 of the vehicle and traffic
     2  law, as amended by chapter 471 of the laws of 1994, is amended  to  read
     3  as follows:
     4    6.  It shall be unlawful for any person under the age of twenty-one to
     5  operate or ride upon a motorcycle unless he or she  wears  a  protective
     6  helmet  of  a  type  which  meets  the requirements set forth in section
     7  571.218 of the federal motor vehicle safety standards as may  from  time
     8  to  time be amended.  The commissioner is hereby authorized and directed
     9  to adopt regulations for helmets which are consistent with the  require-
    10  ments as specified in section 571.218 of the federal motor vehicle safe-
    11  ty standards as may from time to time be amended. The police authorities
    12  of  a  city,  town  or  village  may issue a permit exempting members of

    13  organizations sponsoring or conducting parades or other  public  exhibi-
    14  tions  from  the  provisions  of this subdivision while such members are
    15  participating in such parades or other public exhibitions.
    16    § 2. This act shall take effect on the forty-fifth 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.
                                                                   LBD00671-01-9

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