Senate Bill S8769

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Relates to imposing certain restrictions on catalytic converters

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Transportation Committee


  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2023-S8769 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A9056
Current Committee:
Senate Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Add Art 12-E §399-u, §415-d, amd §301, V & T L; amd §§69-e, 69-g & 69-i, ren §69-h to be §69-i, add §§69-h & 69-j, Gen Bus L; amd §2336, Ins L
Versions Introduced in 2021-2022 Legislative Session:
A10362

2023-S8769 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Imposes certain restrictions on catalytic converters; requires all vehicle catalytic converters to be indelibly marked or engraved with a readily observable unique serial number; provides a reduction in premium charges for certain motor vehicle liability, comprehensive and collision insurance rates with respect to automobiles equipped with a catalytic converter which contains such unique marking or engraving.

2023-S8769 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S8769 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8769
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               March 8, 2024
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  RYAN  --  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, the  general  business  law
   and the insurance law, in relation to imposing certain restrictions on
   catalytic converters
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The vehicle and traffic law is  amended  by  adding  a  new
 article 12-E to read as follows:
                                ARTICLE 12-E
                           CATALYTIC CONVERTERS
 SECTION 399-U. CATALYTIC CONVERTERS.
   § 399-U. CATALYTIC CONVERTERS. 1. FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS ARTICLE THE
 FOLLOWING TERMS SHALL HAVE THE FOLLOWING MEANINGS:
   (A)  "CATALYTIC  CONVERTER"  MEANS  AN EXHAUST EMISSION CONTROL DEVICE
 WHICH MODIFIES EXHAUST GAS FROM AN INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE  BY  CATA-
 LYZING A REDOX REACTION.
   (B)  "USED  OR  SCRAP CATALYTIC CONVERTER" MEANS A CATALYTIC CONVERTER
 THAT WAS PREVIOUSLY INSTALLED IN A VEHICLE AND WHICH  HAS  BEEN  REMOVED
 FROM SUCH VEHICLE IN WHOLE OR IN PART.
   2.  A  USED  OR  SCRAP  CATALYTIC CONVERTER SHALL ONLY BE PURCHASED OR
 OTHERWISE ACCEPTED BY AN ENTITY WHICH IS  LICENSED  AS  EITHER  A  SCRAP
 PROCESSOR OR AS A VEHICLE DISMANTLER PURSUANT TO THIS CHAPTER.
   3. A SCRAP PROCESSOR OR VEHICLE DISMANTLER WHICH PURCHASES ONE OR MORE
 USED OR SCRAP CATALYTIC CONVERTERS SHALL:
   (A) RECORD THE DATE OF PURCHASE, THE NAME OF THE SELLER, AND THE SELL-
 ER'S RESIDENTIAL OR BUSINESS ADDRESS;
   (B) MAKE AND RETAIN A COPY OF THE GOVERNMENT ISSUED PHOTOGRAPHIC IDEN-
 TIFICATION  CARD  USED TO VERIFY THE IDENTITY OF ANY NATURAL PERSON FROM
 WHOM SUCH USED OR SCRAP CATALYTIC CONVERTERS WERE PURCHASED; AND
   (C) RECORD THE UNIQUE IDENTIFICATION NUMBER, IF ANY, AFFIXED  TO  EACH
 SUCH USED OR SCRAP CATALYTIC CONVERTER PURCHASED FROM A SELLER.
   §  2. Subdivision (d) of section 301 of the vehicle and traffic law is
 amended by adding a new paragraph 5 to read as follows:
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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