Int 1380-2025
Prohibiting the sale and rental of class three bicycles with electric assist.
IntroductionFiledCommittee on Consumer and Worker Protectionintroduced 2025-09-10
Filed — closed without being enacted.
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Agenda: 2025-09-10Passed: 2025-12-31
Summary
This bill would prohibit the sale and rental of class three e-bikes. A person who violates this prohibition would be liable for civil penalties up to $2,000.
Committee on Consumer and Worker Protection — Department of Consumer and Worker Protection and Office of Nightlife.
How it compares
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6 passed · 44 died
This bill: 111 days in committee
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Sponsors (23)
Lifecycle
IntroducedIntroduced by Council
2025-09-10 · City Council
ActionReferred to Comm by Council
2025-09-10 · City Council
ClosedFiled (End of Session)
2025-12-31 · City Council
Heard at (1)
City Council · 2025-09-10 · 1:30 PM · Council Chambers - City Hall
Attachments (4)
- Summary of Int. No. 1380
- Int. No. 1380
- September 10, 2025 - Stated Meeting Agenda
- Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 9-10-25
Full text
Be it enacted by the Council as follows:
Section 1. Subchapter 2 of chapter 4 of title 20 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 20-610.2 to read as follows:
� 20-610.2 Prohibition on the sale and rental of class three bicycles with electric assist. a. No person shall distribute, sell, lease, rent or offer for sale, lease, or rental a class three bicycle with electric assist, as defined in subdivision (c) of section 102-c of the vehicle and traffic law or any successor provision.
b. A person who violates this section, or any rule promulgated thereunder, is liable for a civil penalty as follows:
1. For the first violation, a civil penalty of $0; and
2. For each subsequent violation of this section issued on a different day within 2 years of the date of a first violation, a civil penalty of not more than $2,000.
c. Each failure to comply with this section with respect to any 1 stock keeping unit constitutes a separate violation.
� 2. This local law takes effect 180 days after it becomes law.
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