City Laws

Commercial Bicycle Helmet Use

Intro 24-A
Introduced: 2006
Passed City Council: March 14, 2007
Passed Mayor: March 28, 2007

Requires businesses whose employees use bicycles to provide them with bike helmets, and to require employees to wear them. Those employers who do not would be held criminally liable, while commercial bike riders would face a fine for riding without a helmet

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How Councilmembers Voted :

48-Yes 1-No 0-Abstain 2-Absent

NAME	PARTY	DISTRICT	VOTE
Joseph P. Addabbo Jr.	Democrat	32	Yes
Joseph P. Addabbo, Jr.	Democrat	32	Yes
Maria del Carmen Arroyo	Democrat	17	Yes
Tony Avella	Democrat	19	No
Maria Baez	Democrat	14	Yes
Charles Barron	Democrat	42	Yes
Gale A. Brewer	Democrat	6	Yes
Leroy G. Comrie, Jr.	Democrat	27	Yes
Bill de Blasio	Democrat	39	Yes
Inez E. Dickens	Democrat	9	Yes
Erik Martin Dilan	Democrat	37	Absent
Simcha Felder	Democrat	44	Yes
Lewis A. Fidler	Democrat	46	Yes
Helen D. Foster	Democrat	16	Yes
Dennis P. Gallagher	Republican	30	Yes
Daniel R. Garodnick	Democrat	4	Yes
James F. Gennaro	Democrat	24	Yes
Vincent J. Gentile	Democrat	43	Yes
Alan Gerson	Democrat	1	Yes
Eric N. Gioia	Democrat	26	Yes
Sara M. Gonzalez	Democrat	38	Yes
Vincent Ignizio	Republican	51	Yes
Robert Jackson	Democrat	7	Yes
Letitia James	Democrat	35	Yes
Melinda R. Katz	Democrat	29	Yes
G. Oliver Koppell	Democrat	11	Yes
Jessica S. Lappin	Democrat	5	Absent
John C. Liu	Democrat	20	Yes
Melissa Mark Viverito	Democrat	8	Yes
Miguel Martinez	Democrat	10	Yes
Michael E. McMahon	Democrat	49	Yes
Darlene Mealy	Working Families	41	Yes
Rosie Mendez	Democrat	2	Yes
Hiram Monserrate	Democrat	21	Yes
Michael C. Nelson	Democrat	48	Yes
James S. Oddo	Republican	50	Yes
Annabel Palma	Democrat	18	Yes
Christine C. Quinn	Democrat	3	Yes
Domenic M. Recchia, Jr.	Democrat	47	Yes
Diana Reyna	Democrat	34	Yes
Joel Rivera	Democrat	15	Yes
James Sanders, Jr.	Democrat	31	Yes
Larry B. Seabrook	Democrat	12	Yes
Helen Sears	Democrat	25	Yes
Kendall Stewart	Democrat	45	Yes
James Vacca	Democrat	13	Yes
Peter F. Vallone, Jr.	Democrat	22	Yes
Albert Vann	Democrat	36	Yes
David I. Weprin	Democrat	23	Yes
Thomas White, Jr.	Democrat	28	Yes
David Yassky	Democrat	33	Yes

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