File #: Int 0344-2010    Version: * Name: Regulating the use of mobile telephones while operating non-motorized transportation devices.
Type: Introduction Status: Filed
Committee: Committee on Transportation
On agenda: 9/29/2010
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to regulating the use of mobile telephones while operating non-motorized transportation devices.
Sponsors: Lewis A. Fidler, Inez E. Dickens, Julissa Ferreras-Copeland, Vincent J. Gentile, Sara M. Gonzalez, David G. Greenfield, Letitia James, Darlene Mealy, Michael C. Nelson, Annabel Palma, James G. Van Bramer, Jumaane D. Williams, Peter A. Koo
Council Member Sponsors: 13
Int. No. 344
 
By Council Members Fidler, Dickens, Ferreras, Gentile, Gonzalez, Greenfield, James, Mealy, Nelson, Palma, Van Bramer, Williams and Koo  
 
 
A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to regulating the use of mobile telephones while operating non-motorized transportation devices.  
 
 
Be it enacted by the Council as follows:
 
      Section 1.  Chapter one of title 19 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 19-171.2 to read as follows:
      §19-171.2  Non-motorized transportation devices.  a.  For the purposes of this section:     
"Non-motorized transportation device" shall mean a wheeled device propelled by human power and upon which a person or persons may ride.
b.  No person shall operate a non-motorized transportation device while using a mobile telephone unless that telephone is specifically designed and configured to allow hands-free listening and talking, and is used in that manner while operating a non-motorized transportation device.
c. A person who violates subdivision b of this section may be issued a notice of violation and shall be subject to a civil penalty of not more than fifty dollars.  
      §2.  This local law shall take effect ninety days after its enactment into law.
 
 
 
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