S07611 Summary:

BILL NOS07611
 
SAME ASSAME AS A10202
 
SPONSORBAILEY
 
COSPNSR
 
MLTSPNSR
 
Amd §243, Gen Bus L
 
Requires helicopters be equipped with flight recorders, cockpit voice recorders and terrain awareness and warning systems.
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S07611 Actions:

BILL NOS07611
 
01/30/2020REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION
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S07611 Committee Votes:

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S07611 Floor Votes:

There are no votes for this bill in this legislative session.
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S07611 Text:



 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          7611
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                    January 30, 2020
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  Sen.  BAILEY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation
 
        AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to requiring heli-
          copters be equipped with flight recorders, cockpit voice recorders and
          terrain awareness and warning systems
 
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section  1.  Section  243  of  the general business law, as amended by
     2  chapter 843 of the laws of 1980, is amended to read as follows:
     3    § 243.  Aircraft;  construction,  design  and  airworthiness;  federal
     4  registration.  1.  The  public  safety  requiring, and the advantages of
     5  uniform regulation making it desirable, in the interest of  aeronautical
     6  progress, that aircraft to be avigated within this state should conform,
     7  with  respect  to  design,  construction and airworthiness, to standards
     8  prescribed by the United States government with respect to avigation  of
     9  aircraft  subject  to  its  jurisdiction,  it  shall be unlawful for any
    10  person to avigate an aircraft within this state unless  it  is  licensed
    11  and  registered by the department of transportation of the United States
    12  in the manner prescribed by the lawful  rules  and  regulations  of  the
    13  United  States  government  then in force. The license for such aircraft
    14  must be carried and  conspicuously  posted  in  the  aircraft  while  in
    15  flight.  Such license also shall be presented for inspection, on demand,
    16  to any peace officer, acting pursuant to his special duties,  or  police
    17  officer,  or  to any official, manager or person in charge of an airport
    18  or landing place where the aircraft may be.
    19    2. It shall be unlawful for any person to avigate any helicopter with-
    20  in this state unless such helicopter is equipped with:
    21    a. a flight data recorder;
    22    b. a cockpit voice recorder; and
    23    c. a terrain awareness and warning system.
    24    3. The provisions of this section shall not  apply  to  aircraft  used
    25  exclusively  in  the  governmental service of the United States, or used
    26  exclusively in the service of the national guard or of one  or  more  of
    27  the civil departments of this state.
    28    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    29  it shall have become a law.
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15084-01-0
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