Int 0252-1998
Bicycles on Sidewalks
IntroductionFiledCommittee on Transportationintroduced 1998-03-18
Filed — closed without being enacted.
Official record · Legistar
Agenda: 1998-03-18Passed: 2001-12-31
Committee on Transportation — Mass Transportation Agencies and facilities, Department of Transportation and New York City Transit Authority.
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Sponsors (7)
Gifford Miller(prime)
Thomas K. Duane
Guillermo Linares
Lucy Cruz
Wendell Foster
Julia Harrison
Stanley E. Michels
Lifecycle
IntroducedIntroduced by Council
1998-03-18 · City Council
ActionReferred to Comm by Council
1998-03-18 · City Council
ActionPrinted Item Laid on Desk
1998-04-03 · Legislative Documents Unit
ClosedFiled (End of Session)
2001-12-31 · City Council
Full text
Be it enacted by the Council as follows:
Section one. Subdivision a of section 19-176 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as amended by local law number 6 for the year 1996, is amended by adding a new paragraph 4 to read as follows:
�19-176 Bicycle operation on sidewalks prohibited. a. For purposes of this section:
(4) The term "substantial risk of physical injury" shall mean when a person rides a bicycle on a sidewalk within twenty feet of another person.
�2. Subdivision (c) of section 19-176 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as enacted by local law number 6 for the year 1996, is amended to read as follows:
(c) A person who violates subdivision b of this section under circumstances which create a substantial risk of physical injury to another person shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars and imprisonment for not more than twenty days or both such fine and imprisonment. Such person shall also be liable for a civil penalty of not more than one hundred dollars which may be recovered in a proceeding before the environmental control board. Where a summons or notice of violation is issued for a violation of this subdivision, a designated employee of the department, the department of sanitation or the department of parks and recreation or a police officer may seize and impound the bicycle. [In any proceeding under this subdivision it shall be a defense that the defendant or respondent was less than fourteen years old at the time of the commission of the violation.]
�3. Subdivision g of section 19-176 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as enacted by local law number 6 for the year 1996, is relettered as subdivision h and a new subdivision g is added to read as follows:
(g) In any proceeding under this section it shall be an affirmative defense that the defendant or respondent was less than fourteen years old at the time the violation was committed.
�4. This local law shall take effect immediately.
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