New York A 540: Relates to requiring helicopters be equipped with flight recorders, cockpit voice recorders and terrain awareness and warning systems

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A00540 Summary:

BILL NOA00540 

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SAME ASSAME AS S02299

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SPONSORPaulin

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COSPNSR

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §243, Gen Bus L

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Requires helicopters be equipped with flight recorders, cockpit voice recorders and terrain awareness and warning systems.

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BILL NOA00540 

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01/08/2025referred to transportation

01/07/2026referred to transportation

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 540

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 (Prefiled)

 January 8, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
 on Transportation

 AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to requiring heli-
 copters be equipped with flight recorders, cockpit voice recorders and
 terrain awareness and warning systems

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

 1 Section 1. Section 243 of the general business law, as amended by
 2 chapter 843 of the laws of 1980, is amended to read as follows:
 3 § 243. Aircraft; construction, design and airworthiness; federal
 4 registration. 1. The public safety requiring, and the advantages of
 5 uniform regulation making it desirable, in the interest of aeronautical
 6 progress, that aircraft to be avigated within this state should conform,
 7 with respect to design, construction and airworthiness, to standards
 8 prescribed by the United States government with respect to avigation of
 9 aircraft subject to its jurisdiction, it shall be unlawful for any
 10 person to avigate an aircraft within this state unless it is licensed
 11 and registered by the department of transportation of the United States
 12 in the manner prescribed by the lawful rules and regulations of the
 13 United States government then in force. The license for such aircraft
 14 must be carried and conspicuously posted in the aircraft while in
 15 flight. Such license also shall be presented for inspection, on demand,
 16 to any peace officer, acting pursuant to his special duties, or police
 17 officer, or to any official, manager or person in charge of an airport
 18 or landing place where the aircraft may be.
 19 2. It shall be unlawful for any person to avigate any helicopter with-
 20 in this state unless such helicopter is equipped with:
 21 a. a flight data recorder;
 22 b. a cockpit voice recorder; and
 23 c. a terrain awareness and warning system.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD02032-01-5

 A. 540 2

 1 3. The provisions of this section shall not apply to aircraft used
 2 exclusively in the governmental service of the United States, or used
 3 exclusively in the service of the national guard or of one or more of
 4 the civil departments of this state.
 5 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
 6 it shall have become a law.

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