Bill Text: NY A00905 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires the commissioner of DMV to provide applicants for registration of vehicles manufactured before 2009 with informational materials informing them of the hazards associated with a two-point seat belt.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to transportation [A00905 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-A00905-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 905 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 11, 2023 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. GUNTHER -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Transportation AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to warnings regarding two-point seat belts The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Paragraph d of subdivision 3 of section 401 of the vehicle 2 and traffic law, as added by chapter 152 of the laws of 1990, is amended 3 to read as follows: 4 d. In processing any application for a certificate of registration 5 pursuant to this article or to title eleven of this chapter, the commis- 6 sioner shall provide the applicant with informational materials describ- 7 ing the lead-acid battery management, return and collection requirements 8 set forth in title seventeen of article twenty-seven of the environ- 9 mental conservation law, and the used oil management, recycling and 10 disposal requirements set forth in title twenty-three of article twen- 11 ty-three of the environmental conservation law. Such informational mate- 12 rials shall be distributed at the first opportunity and periodically 13 thereafter. Additionally, if the vehicle being registered has a model 14 year of 2008 or earlier, the commissioner shall provide the applicant 15 with informational materials informing them of the hazards associated 16 with a two-point seat belt. The content of such notice shall be devel- 17 oped by the commissioner and contain relevant safety information from 18 the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration. 19 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall 20 have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or 21 repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation of 22 this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and completed 23 on or before such effective date. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD03033-01-3
