Bill Text: NY A02188 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Relates to prohibiting tinted windows in sport utility vehicles.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to transportation [A02188 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-A02188-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 2188 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 14, 2021 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. DINOWITZ, GALEF, PAULIN, BENEDETTO, D. ROSENTHAL, PEOPLES-STOKES -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. COLTON, GOTTFRIED -- read once and referred to the Committee on Transportation AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to prohibiting tinted windows in sport utility vehicles The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subparagraphs 3 and 4 of paragraph (b) of subdivision 12-a 2 of section 375 of the vehicle and traffic law, as amended by chapter 155 3 of the laws of 1991, are amended to read as follows: 4 (3) if it is classified as a station wagon, sedan, sport utility vehi- 5 cle, hardtop, coupe, hatchback or convertible and any rear side window 6 has a light transmittance of less than seventy percent; or 7 (4) the rear window of which is composed of, covered by or treated 8 with any material which has a light transmittance of less than seventy 9 percent. [A rear window may have a light transmittance of less than10seventy percent if the vehicle is equipped with side mirrors on both11sides of the vehicle so adjusted that the driver thereof shall have a12clear and full view of the road and condition of traffic behind such13vehicle.] 14 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after 15 it shall have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD05576-01-1