STATE OF NEW YORK
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3024
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 31, 2019
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Introduced by Sen. KENNEDY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation
AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to requiring
passengers to use seatbelts in stretch limousines
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraphs (b) and (c) of subdivision 4 of section 1229-c
2 of the vehicle and traffic law, as separately amended by chapters 232
3 and 509 of the laws of 2004, are amended and a new paragraph (d) is
4 added to read as follows:
5 (b) "child restraint system" shall mean any device, used in conjunc-
6 tion with safety belts, designed for use in a motor vehicle to restrain,
7 seat, or position children and which meets the applicable Federal Motor
8 Vehicle Safety Standards set forth in 49 C.F.R. 571.213; [and]
9 (c) "appropriate child restraint system" shall mean a child restraint
10 system for which the occupant meets the occupant size and weight recom-
11 mendations of the manufacturer of such system[.]; and
12 (d) "stretch limousine" shall mean any for hire vehicle with a chassis
13 which was manufactured and then altered for the purpose of transporting
14 ten or more occupants, including the driver.
15 § 2. Subdivision 9 of section 1229-c of the vehicle and traffic law,
16 as amended by chapter 340 of the laws of 2017, is amended to read as
17 follows:
18 9. Notwithstanding the provisions of subdivision four of this section,
19 the provisions of this section shall not apply to buses other than
20 school buses and stretch limousines, and the provisions of subdivisions
21 one, two, three and three-a of this section shall not apply to taxis and
22 liveries.
23 § 3. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
24 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD01676-01-9
