 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          6597
 
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                      June 17, 2019
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  Sen.  RAMOS  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
 
        AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to making tech-
          nical corrections to provisions relating  to  bicycles  with  electric
          assist and electric scooters

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 8 of section 1282 of the vehi-
     2  cle and traffic law, as added by a chapter of the laws of 2019, amending
     3  the vehicle and traffic law relating to bicycles  with  electric  assist
     4  and electric scooters, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S.5294-A
     5  and A.7431-B, is amended to read as follows:
     6    (a) The governing body of any city, town or village may, by local law,
     7  ordinance,  order,  rule  or  regulation,  authorize and regulate shared
     8  electric scooter systems within such city,  town  or  village.  No  such
     9  shared  systems  shall  operate within a city, town or village except as
    10  authorized by such local law, ordinance, order, rule or regulation.   No
    11  such  shared electric scooter system shall operate on public highways in
    12  a county with a population of no less  than  one  million  five  hundred
    13  [eighty-six]  eighty-five  thousand  and  no  more than one million five
    14  hundred eighty-seven thousand as  of  the  two  thousand  ten  decennial
    15  census.   For the purposes of this subdivision, the term shared electric
    16  scooter system shall mean a network of self-service and publicly  avail-
    17  able electric scooters, and related infrastructure, in which an electric
    18  scooter trip begins and/or ends on any public highway.
    19    §  2.  This  act  shall  take  effect on the same date and in the same
    20  manner as section 6 of a chapter of the laws of 2019, amending the vehi-
    21  cle and traffic law relating to bicycles with electric assist and  elec-
    22  tric  scooters,  as  proposed  in legislative bills numbers S.5294-A and
    23  A.7431-B, takes effect.
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11288-16-9
Relates to making technical corrections

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