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Assembly Bill A4768A

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Requires that all new motor vehicles sold or leased at new motor vehicle dealerships include a spare tire

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2025-A4768 - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Consumer Affairs And Protection
Law Section:
General Business Law
Laws Affected:
Add §396-pp, Gen Bus L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
A9537

2025-A4768 - Summary

Requires that all new motor vehicles sold or leased at new motor vehicle dealerships include a spare tire, whether or not equipped with standard radial or run-flat tires.

2025-A4768 - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4768
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 6, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. E. BROWN, BEEPHAN, McDONOUGH, LEMONDES, DeSTEFANO
   --  read  once  and  referred to the Committee on Consumer Affairs and
   Protection
 
 AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to requiring  that
   all new motor vehicles sold at new motor vehicle dealerships contain a
   spare tire

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The general business law is amended by adding a new section
 396-pp to read as follows:
   § 396-PP. SPARE TIRE REQUIREMENT. 1. ALL NEW MOTOR  VEHICLES  SOLD  AT
 NEW MOTOR VEHICLE DEALERSHIPS SHALL INCLUDE A SPARE TIRE, WHETHER OR NOT
 EQUIPPED WITH STANDARD RADIAL OR RUN-FLAT TIRES.
   2.  FOR  THE  PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION, A RUN-FLAT TIRE IS A PNEUMATIC
 VEHICLE TIRE DESIGNED TO RESIST THE EFFECTS OF DEFLATION WHEN PUNCTURED,
 ALLOWING THE VEHICLE TO CONTINUE TO BE  DRIVEN  AT  REDUCED  SPEEDS  FOR
 LIMITED  DISTANCES,  BUT  CANNOT  REPLACE  A SPARE TIRE FOR SAFETY AND A
 LONGER THAN EXPECTED JOURNEY TO A REPAIR SHOP.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD07304-01-5

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2025-A4768A (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Consumer Affairs And Protection
Law Section:
General Business Law
Laws Affected:
Add §396-pp, Gen Bus L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
A9537

2025-A4768A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires that all new motor vehicles sold or leased at new motor vehicle dealerships include a spare tire, whether or not equipped with standard radial or run-flat tires.

2025-A4768A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  4768--A
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 6, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. E. BROWN, BEEPHAN, McDONOUGH, LEMONDES, DeSTEFANO
   --  read  once  and  referred to the Committee on Consumer Affairs and
   Protection -- recommitted to the Committee  on  Consumer  Affairs  and
   Protection  in  accordance  with  Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee
   discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
   to said committee
 
 AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to requiring  that
   all new motor vehicles sold or leased at new motor vehicle dealerships
   contain a spare tire
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The general business law is amended by adding a new section
 396-pp to read as follows:
   § 396-PP. SPARE TIRE REQUIREMENT. 1. ALL NEW MOTOR  VEHICLES  SOLD  OR
 LEASED  AT  NEW  MOTOR  VEHICLE  DEALERSHIPS SHALL INCLUDE A SPARE TIRE,
 WHETHER OR NOT EQUIPPED WITH STANDARD RADIAL OR RUN-FLAT TIRES.
   2. FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION, A RUN-FLAT TIRE  IS  A  PNEUMATIC
 VEHICLE TIRE DESIGNED TO RESIST THE EFFECTS OF DEFLATION WHEN PUNCTURED,
 ALLOWING  THE  VEHICLE  TO  CONTINUE  TO BE DRIVEN AT REDUCED SPEEDS FOR
 LIMITED DISTANCES, BUT CANNOT REPLACE A SPARE  TIRE  FOR  SAFETY  AND  A
 LONGER THAN EXPECTED JOURNEY TO A REPAIR SHOP.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD07304-02-6

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