File #: Int 0596-2011    Version: * Name: Electric assisted bicycles.
Type: Introduction Status: Filed
Committee: Committee on Transportation
On agenda: 6/14/2011
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to electric assisted bicycles.
Sponsors: Daniel R. Garodnick, Margaret S. Chin, Letitia James, Michael C. Nelson, Jumaane D. Williams, Daniel Dromm , Peter A. Koo, Jessica S. Lappin, James G. Van Bramer
Council Member Sponsors: 9
Date Ver.Prime SponsorAction ByActionResultAction DetailsMeeting DetailsMultimedia
12/31/2013*Daniel R. Garodnick City Council Filed (End of Session)  Action details Meeting details Not available
6/14/2011*Daniel R. Garodnick City Council Referred to Comm by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
6/14/2011*Daniel R. Garodnick City Council Introduced by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
Int. No. 596
By Council Members Garodnick, Chin, James, Nelson, Williams, Dromm, Koo, Lappin and Van Bramer
 
 
A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to electric assisted bicycles.
 
 
Be it enacted by the Council as follows:
 
Section 1. Subchapter 3 of chapter 1 of title 19 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 19-176.3 to read as follows:
§19-176.3 Electric assisted bicycles. a. For the purposes of this section, the term "electric assisted bicycle" shall mean a bicycle with two or three wheels which has a saddle and fully operable pedals for human propulsion and also has an electric motor with a power output of less than seven hundred and fifty watts, whose maximum speed on a paved level surface, when powered solely by such a motor while ridden by an operator who weighs one hundred and seventy pounds, is less than twenty miles per hour.  
b. Except as provided in subdivision c of this section, all penalties applicable to bicycles in this code or in the vehicle and traffic law shall be double for electric assisted bicycles.  
c. This section shall not apply where the penalty for the violation would be in conflict with New York state or federal law.
§2. This local law shall take effect one hundred and twenty days after its enactment into law.   
 
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