Legislation Details

File #: Int 0505-1999    Version: * Name: Motorized Scooters, Operation
Type: Introduction Status: Filed
Committee: Committee on Transportation
On agenda: 1/6/1999
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York in relation to prohibiting the reckless operation of motorized scooters.
Sponsors: Andrew S. Eristoff, Herbert E. Berman, Tracy L. Boyland, Una Clarke, Martin Malave-Dilan, Ronnie M. Eldridge, Kenneth K. Fisher, Kathryn E. Freed, Julia Harrison, Lloyd Henry, Karen Koslowitz, Sheldon S. Leffler, Guillermo Linares, Helen M. Marshall, Walter L. McCaffrey, Stanley E. Michels, Gifford Miller, Jerome X. O'Donovan, Mary Pinkett, Morton Povman, Madeline T. Provenzano, Philip Reed, Jose Rivera, Victor L. Robles, Angel Rodriguez, John D. Sabini, Archie W. Spigner, Lawrence A. Warden, Thomas White, Priscilla A. Wooten, Michael J. Abel, Stephen J. Fiala, Martin J. Golden, Thomas V. Ognibene, Alphonse Stabile
Council Member Sponsors: 35
Date Ver.Prime SponsorAction ByActionResultAction DetailsMeeting DetailsMultimedia
12/31/2001*Andrew S. Eristoff City Council Filed (End of Session)  Action details Meeting details Not available
1/6/1999*Andrew S. Eristoff Legislative Documents Unit Printed Item Laid on Desk  Action details Meeting details Not available
1/6/1999*Andrew S. Eristoff City Council Referred to Comm by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
1/6/1999*Andrew S. Eristoff City Council Introduced by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available

Int. No. 505

 

By Council Members Eristoff, Berman, Boyland, Clarke, Malave-Dilan, Eldridge, Fisher, Freed, Harrison, Henry, Koslowitz, Leffler, Linares, Marshall, McCaffrey, Michels, Miller, O'Donovan, Pinkett, Povman, Provenzano, Reed, Rivera, Robles, Rodriguez, Sabini, Spigner, Warden, White, Wooten, Abel, Fiala, Golden, Ognibene and Stabile.

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York in relation to prohibiting the reckless operation of motorized scooters.

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

                     Section 1. The title of section 19-176.1 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended to read as follows:

                     §19-176.1 Reckless operation of roller skates, in-line skates [and] , skateboards and motorized scooters prohibited.

§2. The preface  of subdivision a of section 19-176.1 of the administrative code of the city of New York and paragraph 2 of such subdivision, as enacted by local law number 43 for the year 1996, are amended to read as follows:

                     a. For purposes of this [section] subchapter:

 (2) The term “reckless operation” shall mean operating roller skates, in-line skates [or], a skateboard or a motorized scooter  on a public street, highway or sidewalk in such a manner as to endanger the safety or property.

§3. A new paragraph (6) is added to subdivision a of section 19-176.1 of the administrative code of the city of New York to read as follows:

(6) The term “motorized scooter” shall mean a device, not required to be registered pursuant to the vehicle and traffic law, consisting of a long footboard having one or two wheels at each end, to which is attached a low-powered gasoline or electric-powered engine, where the forward wheel or wheels are controlled by an upright steering bar.

§4. Subdivisions b and c of section 19-176.1 are amended to read as follows:

b. No person shall engage in the reckless operation of roller skates, in-line skates, [or ] a skateboard or a motorized scooter.

                     c. A violation of subdivision b of this section shall be a traffic infraction and shall be punishable in accordance with section 1800 of the vehicle and traffic law. Any person who is found guilty of the reckless operation of roller skates, in-line skates [or a] skateboard  or a motorized scooter shall be subject to a fine of not less than fifty dollars nor more than one hundred dollars.

§5 This local law shall take effect immediately.

 

 

 

LS #889

12/31/98

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