A 9197: Requires the registration and issuance of license plates for bicycles with electric assist and electric scooters that can exceed twenty-eight miles per hour with battery assistance up to and exceeding seven hundred fifty watts.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 9197 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY November 3, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. CONRAD -- read once and referred to the Committee on Transportation AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to requiring license plates for certain bicycles with electric assist and electric scooters The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 1242 of the vehicle and traffic law is amended by 2 adding a new subdivision 14 to read as follows: 3 14. (a) Any bicycle with electric assist that can exceed twenty-eight 4 miles per hour with battery assistance up to and exceeding seven hundred 5 fifty watts shall be registered and issued a license plate by the 6 department. 7 (b) Such license plates shall be of such material, form, design and 8 dimensions and contain or set forth such distinguishing number or other 9 identification marks as the commissioner shall prescribe provided, 10 however, that there shall be at all times a marked contrast between the 11 color of the number plates and that of the numerals or letters thereon, 12 and provided further that no bicycle with electric assist shall display 13 the number plates of more than one state at a time, nor shall any plate 14 be used other than those issued by the commissioner. 15 (c) Each such license plate shall be conspicuously displayed on the 16 rear of the bicycle with electric assist. 17 (d) The fee for such license plates shall be a nominal fee determined 18 by the commissioner. 19 § 2. The vehicle and traffic law is amended by adding a new section 20 1290 to read as follows: 21 § 1290. Registration of electric scooters. 1. Any electric scooter 22 that can exceed twenty-eight miles per hour with battery assistance up 23 to and exceeding seven hundred fifty watts shall be registered and 24 issued a license plate by the department. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD13950-01-5 
 A. 9197 2 1 2. Such license plates shall be of such material, form, design and 2 dimensions and contain or set forth such distinguishing number or other 3 identification marks as the commissioner shall prescribe, provided, 4 however, that there shall be at all times a marked contrast between the 5 color of the number plates and that of the numerals or letters thereon, 6 and provided further that no electric scooter shall display the number 7 plates of more than one state at a time, nor shall any plate be used 8 other than those issued by the commissioner. 9 3. Each such license plate shall be conspicuously displayed on the 10 rear of the electric scooter. 11 4. The fee for such license plates shall be a nominal fee determined 12 by the commissioner. 13 § 3. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall 14 have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or 15 repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation of 16 this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and completed 17 on or before such effective date.