2013 New York Consolidated Laws
VAT - Vehicle & Traffic
Title 5 - DRIVERS' LICENSES
Article 19 - (501 - 509) LICENSING OF DRIVERS
501-B - Additional restrictions on certain learners' permits and drivers' licenses.

 
    §  501-b.  Additional  restrictions  on  certain learners' permits and
  drivers' licenses. 1. In  addition  to  the  restrictions  contained  in
  subdivision  five of section five hundred one of this article, no holder
  of a class DJ or class MJ learner's permit shall:
    (a) operate a motor vehicle with any front seat occupants  other  than
  the supervising driver;
    (b)  operate  a motor vehicle unless every occupant of such vehicle is
  properly restrained by a safety belt or child safety seat in  accordance
  with  the  provisions  of  subdivision three-a of section twelve hundred
  twenty-nine-c of this chapter;
    (c) operate a motor vehicle with more than one passenger who is  under
  the age of twenty-one and who is not a member of such holder's immediate
  family,  provided,  however, that the provisions of this paragraph shall
  not apply when such holder is accompanied by  a  duly  licensed  parent,
  guardian,  person  in  a  position  of  loco  parentis, driver education
  teacher or driving school instructor;
    (d) be eligible for issuance of a class DJ, MJ, D or M license  unless
  such  permit  has been valid for at least six months. Any time period in
  which such class DJ or MJ learner's permit has been suspended or revoked
  shall not be counted  in  determining  the  length  of  time  that  such
  learner's permit has been valid.
    2.  In  addition to the restrictions contained in subdivision three of
  section five hundred one of this article, no holder of  a  class  DJ  or
  class MJ license shall operate a motor vehicle:
    (a)  unless every occupant of such vehicle is properly restrained by a
  safety belt or child safety seat in accordance with  the  provisions  of
  subdivision  three-a  of  section  twelve  hundred twenty-nine-c of this
  chapter; and
    (b) with more than one passenger who is under the  age  of  twenty-one
  and  who  is  not  a member of such holder's immediate family, provided,
  however, that the provisions of this paragraph shall not apply when such
  holder is accompanied by a duly licensed parent, guardian, person  in  a
  position  of  loco  parentis, driver education teacher or driving school
  instructor.