New York S 9950: Relates to personal delivery services

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S09950 Summary:

BILL NOS09950 

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SAME ASSAME AS A10766

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SPONSORMARTINEZ

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COSPNSR

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MLTSPNSR

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Ren §131-a to be §131-c, add §§131-a & 131-b, Art 34-E §§1290 - 1296, amd §§125, V & T L

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Amends the definition of motor vehicle to exclude personal delivery devices; requires personal delivery device operators demonstrate an adequate safety record and proof of insurance; subjects personal delivery devices to traffic rules and laws applicable to pedestrians; sets speed limits; requires such devices to obey all traffic and pedestrian control devices, and set minimum equipment standards.

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BILL NOS09950 

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04/17/2026REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 9950

 IN SENATE

 April 17, 2026
 ___________

 Introduced by Sen. MARTINEZ -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
 printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation

 AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to personal
 delivery devices

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. Section 131-a of the vehicle and traffic law is renumbered
 2 131-c and two new sections 131-a and 131-b are added to read as follows:
 3 § 131-a. Personal delivery device. A powered device that is intended
 4 for the transport of property; weighs not more than four hundred pounds,
 5 excluding cargo; and is capable of navigating with or without the active
 6 control or monitoring of an individual.
 7 § 131-b. Personal delivery device operator. An entity or its agent
 8 that exercises active or passive physical control or monitoring over the
 9 navigation system and operation of a personal delivery device. Personal
 10 delivery device operator shall not include a person that requests or
 11 receives property transported by a personal delivery device; or arranges
 12 for and dispatches a personal delivery device to transport goods to
 13 another person.
 14 § 2. Section 125 of the vehicle and traffic law, as amended by section
 15 3 of part XX of chapter 58 of the laws of 2020, is amended to read as
 16 follows:
 17 § 125. Motor vehicles. Every vehicle operated or driven upon a public
 18 highway which is propelled by any power other than muscular power,
 19 except (a) electrically-driven mobility assistance devices operated or
 20 driven by a person with a disability, (a-1) electric personal assistive
 21 mobility devices operated outside a city with a population of one
 22 million or more, (b) vehicles which run only upon rails or tracks, (c)
 23 snowmobiles as defined in article forty-seven of this chapter, (d) all
 24 terrain vehicles as defined in article forty-eight-B of this chapter,
 25 (e) bicycles with electric assist as defined in section one hundred
 26 two-c of this article, [and] (f) electric scooters as defined in section
 27 one hundred fourteen-e of this article, and (g) personal delivery
 28 devices as defined in section one hundred thirty-one-a of this article.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD15283-01-6

 S. 9950 2

 1 For the purposes of title four of this chapter, the term motor vehicle
 2 shall exclude fire and police vehicles other than ambulances. For the
 3 purposes of titles four and five of this chapter the term motor vehicles
 4 shall exclude farm type tractors and all terrain type vehicles used
 5 exclusively for agricultural purposes, or for snow plowing, other than
 6 for hire, farm equipment, including self-propelled machines used exclu-
 7 sively in growing, harvesting or handling farm produce, and self-pro-
 8 pelled caterpillar or crawler-type equipment while being operated on the
 9 contract site.
 10 § 3. The vehicle and traffic law is amended by adding a new article
 11 34-E to read as follows:

 12 ARTICLE 34-E
 13 PERSONAL DELIVERY DEVICES

 14 Section 1290. Effect of regulations.
 15 1291. Permit.
 16 1292. Traffic laws apply to personal delivery devices; local
 17 rules and laws.