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This bill regulates the sale and safety standards of electronically motorized boards in New York, including a minimum age of fifteen for purchase and use.
Why it matters
Creates safety and labeling standards. The bill requires all electronically motorized boards sold in New York (manufactured or assembled after January 1, 2021) to meet safety and warning label standards set by the Department of Motor Vehicles, ensuring a baseline of consumer safety until federal regulations exist.
Defines what counts as an "electronically motorized board". The legislation provides a clear technical definition, limiting it to single-rider, stand-on devices under 60 inches by 18 inches, with electric propulsion under 1,000 watts and a top speed of 20 mph—excluding larger or more powerful vehicles from these rules.
Shifts regulatory authority to state level until federal action. The bill empowers New York’s DMV to regulate these devices in the absence of federal rules, allowing the state to proactively address safety concerns and market practices rather than waiting for national standards.
Aims to protect young users and consumers. By setting a minimum age for purchase and use, the law seeks to reduce risks to children and clarify responsibility for retailers, potentially reducing injuries among younger teens and legal ambiguity for businesses.
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STATE OF NEW YORK
3604
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 29, 2019
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 twenty-one 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. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation of this act on its effective date are authorized and directed to be made and completed on or before such date.
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