Bill Text: NY A02188 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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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

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2188

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 14, 2021
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        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  than
    10  seventy  percent  if  the  vehicle is equipped with side mirrors on both
    11  sides of the vehicle so adjusted that the driver thereof  shall  have  a
    12  clear  and  full  view  of the road and condition of traffic behind such
    13  vehicle.]
    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