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A05364 Summary:

BILL NO	A05364
SAME AS	SAME AS S02974
SPONSOR	Lupardo
COSPNSR	DenDekker, Lopez P
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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A05364 Actions:

BILL NO	A05364
02/16/2011	referred to transportation
01/04/2012	referred to transportation

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A05364 Floor Votes:

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A05364 Text:

 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          5364
 
                               2011-2012 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                    February 16, 2011
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by M. of A. LUPARDO -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee 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.
                                                                   LBD00453-01-1

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