STATE OF NEW YORK
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3564
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 8, 2019
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Introduced by Sen. SERRANO -- 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 rear passen-
ger seat belts
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The opening paragraph of subdivision 1, subdivision 3 and
2 subdivision 9 of section 1229-c of the vehicle and traffic law, the
3 opening paragraph of subdivision 1 as amended by chapter 18 of the laws
4 of 2005, subdivision 3 as added by chapter 365 of the laws of 1984 and
5 subdivision 9 as amended by chapter 340 of the laws of 2017, are amended
6 to read as follows:
7 No person shall operate a motor vehicle, other than taxis, liveries
8 and buses in this state unless:
9 3. No person shall operate a motor vehicle unless such person is
10 restrained by a safety belt approved by the commissioner. No person
11 sixteen years of age or over shall be a passenger in the front or back
12 seat of a motor vehicle unless such person is restrained by a safety
13 belt approved by the commissioner.
14 9. [Notwithstanding the provisions of subdivision four of this
15 section, the provisions of this] This section shall [not] apply to buses
16 [other than school buses and] with the exception of transit buses as
17 defined in section one hundred fifty-six-a of this chapter. Under this
18 subdivision, any penalty for an unrestrained back seat passenger shall
19 be the responsibility of such passenger, with the exception of children
20 under the age of sixteen, where such penalty shall be the responsibility
21 of his or her parent or guardian. [the] The provisions of subdivisions
22 one, two, three and three-a of this section shall not apply to taxis and
23 liveries.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 § 2. The opening paragraph of subdivision 1 of section 1229-c of the
2 vehicle and traffic law, as amended by chapter 393 of the laws of 2017,
3 is amended to read as follows:
4 No person shall operate a motor vehicle, other than taxis, liveries
5 and buses in this state unless:
6 § 3. The vehicle and traffic law is amended by adding a new section
7 156-a to read as follows:
8 § 156-a. Transit bus. A motor vehicle as defined under section one
9 hundred four of this article intended to accommodate standing passen-
10 gers, traveling short distances on a fixed route making frequent stops.
11 § 4. This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that
12 the amendments to the opening paragraph of subdivision 1 of section
13 1229-c of the vehicle and traffic law made by section two of this act
14 shall take effect on the same date and in the same manner as chapter 393
15 of the laws of 2017 takes effect.