Establishes an amnesty program for any person who has received a ticket for operation of an electric assisted bicycle and provides an exception from the registration requirement of motor vehicles for electric assisted bicycles.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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8443
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
July 8, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. ROZIC -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Transportation
AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to establishing
an amnesty program for any person who has received a ticket for opera-
tion of an electric assisted bicycle and providing an exception from
the registration requirement of motor vehicles for electric assisted
bicycles; and providing for the repeal of such provisions upon expira-
tion thereof
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The vehicle and traffic law is amended by adding a new
2 section 401-c to read as follows:
3 § 401-c. Electric assisted bicycle amnesty program. 1. Notwithstand-
4 ing any provision of law to the contrary, the department of motor vehi-
5 cles shall establish an amnesty program for any individual who has been
6 issued a ticket for a violation of section four hundred one of this
7 article while operating an electric assisted bicycle. Such amnesty
8 program shall allow any person charged with a fine, fee or other penalty
9 for a violation of section four hundred one of this article to have such
10 fine, fee or other penalty waived for a period of three hundred sixty-
11 five days from the establishment of such amnesty program.
12 2. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, it shall not
13 be a violation of section four hundred one of this article for an elec-
14 tric assisted bicycle to be operated or driven upon the public highways
15 of this state without first being registered in accordance with the
16 provisions of this article.
17 3. As used in this section, the term "electric assisted bicycle" shall
18 mean a bicycle with two or three wheels which has a saddle and fully
19 operative pedals for human propulsion and also has an electric motor.
20 The electric assisted bicycle's electric motor shall: have a power
21 output of less than seven hundred fifty watts; have a maximum speed of
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 less than twenty miles per hour on a paved level surface when powered
2 solely by such a motor while ridden by an operator who weighs one
3 hundred seventy pounds; and be incapable of further increasing the speed
4 of the device when human power is used to propel the device at or more
5 than twenty miles per hour.
6 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall expire and be
7 deemed repealed one year after such date.