What's happening
This bill sets safety standards, age restrictions, and labeling requirements for the sale and operation of electronically motorized boards in New York.
Why it matters
Establishes enforceable safety standards. By requiring electronically motorized boards to meet specific safety regulations before they can be sold, the bill aims to prevent injuries and accidents caused by poorly manufactured or unsafe devices, increasing consumer protection.
Mandates clear warning labels. The requirement for warning labels ensures that consumers are better informed about potential risks and proper usage, supporting safer operation and helping to reduce liability disputes.
Sets a minimum age for purchase and use. Restricting sales and usage to individuals 15 years and older addresses concerns about young children operating potentially hazardous equipment, responding to safety and developmental considerations.
Standardizes the definition of the devices covered. By precisely defining what qualifies as an “electronically motorized board,” the legislation clarifies which products are subject to these rules, reducing ambiguity for manufacturers, retailers, law enforcement, and consumers.
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Who cares
Motorized board manufacturers and distributors
The bill would require DMV safety standards and warning labels governing manufacture, assembly and distribution until federal regulators issue such rules.
Motorized board retailers
The bill would bar sales to anyone under 15 and prohibit sales of boards manufactured or assembled on or after January 1, 2019, unless they comply with DMV rules.
Riders under 15 and their families
The bill would prohibit anyone under 15 from operating an electronically motorized board covered by its definition.
New York State Department of Motor Vehicles
The commissioner would be required to establish safety standards and warning-label rules for electronically motorized boards.
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Set E-Board Safety Rules
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History
- Referred to consumer affairs and protection
- Referred to consumer affairs and protection
Full text
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STATE OF NEW YORK
4820
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 3, 2017
Introduced by M. of A. ORTIZ -- read once and referred to the Committee on Consumer Affairs and Protection
AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to the sale of electronically motorized boards
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. The general business law is amended by adding a new section 391-u to read as follows:
§ 391-u. Sale of electronically motorized boards. 1. No electronically motorized board manufactured or assembled on or after January first, two thousand nineteen shall be sold in this state unless such electronically motorized board is manufactured or assembled in compliance with rules and regulations promulgated by the commissioner pursuant to subdivision two of this section.
2. The commissioner of the department of motor vehicles shall promulgate rules and regulations pertaining to safety standards and warning labels that shall govern the manufacture, assembly and distribution of electronically motorized boards until such time as the federal consumer product safety commission or any successor commission or agency may promulgate such rules and regulations.
3. An electronically motorized board shall only be sold to an individual having attained the age of fifteen. An electronically motorized board shall be operated only by a person who is fifteen years of age or older.
4. For the purposes of this section, the term "electronically motorized board" shall mean any wheeled device that has a floorboard designed to be stood upon when riding that is not greater than sixty inches deep and eighteen inches wide, is designed to transport only one person, and has an electric propulsion system averaging less than one thousand watts, the maximum speed of which, when powered solely by a propulsion
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system on a paved level surface, is no more than twenty miles per hour. The device may be designed to also be powered by human propulsion.
§ 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeeding the date on which it shall have become a law; provided, however, that effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation of this act on its effective date is authorized and directed to be made and completed on or before such date.
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