Authorizes the NYS Consumer Protection Board to establish a bike theft prevention awareness and education program; provides that the director shall produce & distribute educational materials and must be made available to law enforcement authorities; provides that the board shall issue report by next April 1 and shall periodically review available data on bike theft and municipal efforts to reduce such.

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A67A-2011 Actions

• Mar 2, 2012: enacting clause stricken
• Feb 7, 2012: reported referred to ways and means
• Jan 4, 2012: referred to consumer affairs and protection
• May 2, 2011: print number 67a
• May 2, 2011: amend and recommit to consumer affairs and protection
• Jan 5, 2011: referred to consumer affairs and protection

A67A-2011 Text

                      S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
  ________________________________________________________________________

                                    67--A

                         2011-2012 Regular Sessions

                            I N  ASSEMBLY

                                 (PREFILED)

                               January 5, 2011
                                 ___________

  Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  HEVESI,  HOYT, BENEDETTO, JAFFEE, M. MILLER,
    ABBATE, CYMBROWITZ, CASTRO, BOYLAND,  GABRYSZAK,  DESTITO,  MAISEL  --
    Multi-Sponsored  by  -- M.  of A. CUSICK, GLICK, HIKIND, MARKEY, MENG,
    ROBINSON -- read once  and  referred  to  the  Committee  on  Consumer
    Affairs  and Protection -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
    reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

  AN ACT to amend the executive law  and  the  general  business  law,  in
    relation  to  the  bicycle  theft  prevention  awareness and education
    program

    THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
  BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:


    Section  1.  Subdivision  3  of  section  94-a of the executive law is
  amended by adding a new paragraph 16 to read as follows:

    (16) ESTABLISH A BICYCLE  THEFT  PREVENTION  AWARENESS  AND  EDUCATION
  PROGRAM  PURSUANT  TO SECTION THREE HUNDRED NINETY-ONE-CC OF THE GENERAL
  BUSINESS LAW.
    S 2. The general business law is amended by adding a new section  391-
  cc to read as follows:

    S 391-CC. BICYCLE THEFT PREVENTION AWARENESS AND EDUCATION PROGRAM. 1.
  THE  CONSUMER  PROTECTION DIVISION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE, HEREAFTER
  REFERRED TO IN THIS SECTION AS THE "CONSUMER PROTECTION  DIVISION,"  AND
  IN  CONJUNCTION  WITH  THE  DIVISION OF STATE POLICE AND IN CONSULTATION
  WITH THE NEW YORK CITY POLICE DEPARTMENT AND NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT OF
  CONSUMER AFFAIRS, SHALL DEVELOP,  IMPLEMENT,  AND  MAINTAIN  AN  ONGOING
  PUBLIC  AWARENESS  AND EDUCATION PROGRAM TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC OF
  SYSTEMS AND METHODS DESIGNED TO PREVENT BICYCLE  THEFT,  INCLUDING,  BUT
  NOT  LIMITED  TO,  PROPER  METHODS FOR PARKING AND LOCKING BICYCLES, THE
  BENEFITS OF BICYCLE REGISTRATION, AND THE PROPER PROCEDURE FOR REPORTING
  BICYCLE THEFT.

   EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                        [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                             LBD01564-02-1

 A. 67--A                            2

    2. THE CONSUMER  PROTECTION  DIVISION  SHALL  PRODUCE  AND  DISTRIBUTE
  EDUCATIONAL  MATERIALS RELATED TO BICYCLE THEFT PREVENTION. SUCH MATERI-
  ALS SHALL INCLUDE REFERENCE TO BICYCLE  REGISTRATION  PROGRAMS  ADMINIS-
  TERED  BY  MUNICIPALITIES AND OTHER APPROPRIATE ENTITIES. SUCH MATERIALS
  SHALL  BE  MADE  AVAILABLE,  UPON  REQUEST, TO LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES,
  EDUCATION  INSTITUTIONS,  COMMUNITY  GROUPS,  AND  MUNICIPALITIES.   THE
  CONSUMER  PROTECTION  DIVISION SHALL ALSO POST OR CAUSE TO BE POSTED THE
  CONTENTS OF  SUCH  EDUCATIONAL  MATERIALS  ON  THE  DIVISION'S  INTERNET
  WEBSITE.
    3.  THE  CONSUMER PROTECTION DIVISION SHALL PERIODICALLY REVIEW AVAIL-
  ABLE DATA ON BICYCLE THEFT AND UPDATE THE INFORMATION ON  BICYCLE  THEFT
  PREVENTION  AWARENESS PROVIDED   IN ITS EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS AND ON ITS
  INTERNET WEBSITE, AS APPROPRIATE.
    4. THE CONSUMER PROTECTION DIVISION SHALL ISSUE A WRITTEN  REPORT,  ON
  OR  BEFORE  APRIL  FIRST  NEXT SUCCEEDING THE DATE ON WHICH THIS SECTION
  SHALL HAVE BECOME A LAW TO THE GOVERNOR, THE TEMPORARY PRESIDENT OF  THE
  SENATE  AND  THE  SPEAKER  OF THE ASSEMBLY ON THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THIS
  SECTION AND ANY RECOMMENDATIONS  FOR  FURTHERING  THE  PURPOSE  OF  THIS
  SECTION.
    S 3. This act shall take effect immediately.