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                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             November 6, 2020
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 Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Dinowitz) --
   read once and referred to the Committee on Transportation
 
 AN  ACT  to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to inspection
   of motor vehicle muffler and exhaust systems
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section  1.  Subparagraph  (a)  of  paragraph  1 of subdivision (c) of
 section 301 of the vehicle and traffic law, as amended by chapter 444 of
 the laws of 2016, is amended 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; MUFFLER OR EXHAUST  SYSTEM  PURSUANT
 TO  SUBDIVISION THIRTY-ONE OF SECTION THREE-HUNDRED SEVENTY-FIVE OF THIS
 TITLE AND THE MAXIMUM ALLOWABLE SOUND LEVELS AS SET FORTH IN TABLE II OF
 PARAGRAPH C OF SUBDIVISION THREE OF SECTION THREE-HUNDRED EIGHTY-SIX  OF
 THIS  TITLE, PROVIDED THAT THE COMMISSIONER SHALL PROMULGATE REGULATIONS
 REGARDING THE RELATIVE BASIS  FOR  TESTING  SUCH  LEVELS  AT  INSPECTION
 STATIONS  and such other mechanisms and equipment 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.
   § 2. This act shall take effect one year after is shall have become  a
 law.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD17458-01-0