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Assembly Bill A3031

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to rules regarding unattended motor vehicles

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2025-A3031 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §1210, V & T L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
A6759

2025-A3031 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides an exception to the requirement that no person shall permit a vehicle to stand unattended without first stopping the engine, if a remote car starter is being used while away from the vehicle to engage the vehicle's climate controls.

2025-A3031 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3031
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 23, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  LUNSFORD, BICHOTTE HERMELYN -- read once and
   referred to the Committee on Transportation
 
 AN ACT to amend the vehicle  and  traffic  law,  in  relation  to  rules
   regarding unattended motor vehicles
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Subdivision (a) of section 1210 of the vehicle and  traffic
 law,  as  amended by chapter 350 of the laws of 1967, is amended to read
 as follows:
   (a) No person driving or in charge of a motor vehicle shall permit  it
 to  stand  unattended  without  first  stopping  the engine, locking the
 ignition, removing the key from the vehicle, and effectively setting the
 brake thereon and, when standing  upon  any  grade,  turning  the  front
 wheels  to  the  curb  or  side  of  the highway, provided, however, the
 provision for removing the key from the vehicle shall  not  require  the
 removal  of  keys hidden from sight about the vehicle for convenience or
 emergency.  THERE SHALL BE AN EXCEPTION FROM THE REQUIREMENT OF STOPPING
 THE ENGINE WHEN A PERSON DRIVING OR IN CHARGE  OF  A  MOTOR  VEHICLE  IS
 ALLOWING  SUCH  VEHICLE  TO  STAND  UNATTENDED IF SUCH PERSON IS USING A
 REMOTE CAR STARTER TO TURN THE ENGINE ON WHILE AWAY FROM THE VEHICLE FOR
 THE PURPOSES OF ENGAGING SUCH VEHICLE'S CLIMATE CONTROLS.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD04383-01-5

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