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Senate Bill S6862

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Enacts the "safe cars safe streets act of 2016"

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2015-S6862 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A6135
Current Committee:
Assembly Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §301, V & T L

2015-S6862 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Enacts the "safe cars safe streets act"; requires the inspection of tinted or shaded windows, airbag systems, and antilock brake systems during the required periodic inspection of motor vehicles.

2015-S6862 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2015-S6862 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  6862

                            I N  S E N A T E

                              March 2, 2016
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen.  DeFRANCISCO -- 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  the
  inspection  of  tinted or shaded windows, airbag systems, and antilock
  brake systems during the required periodic inspection of  motor  vehi-
  cles

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

  Section 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "safe  cars
safe streets act of 2016".
  S  2.  Subparagraphs  (a) and (b) of paragraph 1 of subdivision (c) of
section 301 of the vehicle and traffic law, subparagraph (a) as  amended
by  section  5 of part V1 of chapter 62 of the laws of 2003 and subpara-
graph (b) as added by chapter 161 of the laws of 1996, are amended and a
new subparagraph (c) is added to read as follows:
  (a) A safety inspection shall be made  with  respect  to  the  brakes;
steering  mechanism;  wheel alignment; lights, including but not limited
to the lights which are designed and placed on a vehicle for the purpose
of illuminating the vehicle's license plates; odometer;  tire  pressure;
seat  safety  belts;  shoulder harness safety belts; ANY WINDOW WHICH IS
COMPOSED OF, COVERED BY OR TREATED WITH ANY MATERIAL WHICH HAS  A  LIGHT
TRANSMITTANCE  OF  LESS  THAN  SEVENTY PERCENT PURSUANT TO SECTION THREE
HUNDRED SEVENTY-FIVE OF THIS TITLE; and such other mechanisms and equip-
ment as shall be determined by the  commissioner  to  be  necessary  for
proper  and  safe  operations.  Such  inspection shall also be made with
respect to vehicle identification number. Upon inspection,  the  mileage
appearing on the odometer shall be recorded upon the inspection sticker.
  (b)  In the case of any passenger car manufactured on or after Septem-
ber first, nineteen hundred ninety-seven,  [during  the  course  of  the
vehicle  safety  inspection, the readiness of] A SAFETY INSPECTION SHALL
BE MADE WITH RESPECT TO the inflatable restraint system, by means of the
readiness indicator, shall be noted  on  the  invoice  supplied  to  the
consumer.  The  system's  lack  of  readiness  shall [not] be considered

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD09922-03-6

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