Bill Text: NY A02741 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Mandates the installation of ignition interlock devices by 2022 for motor vehicles manufactured for use in this state; mandates all motor vehicles in NYS shall be equipped with such devices by 2023.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to transportation [A02741 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A02741-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2741
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 25, 2019
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        Introduced  by  M. of A. ORTIZ, DenDEKKER, WEPRIN, THIELE -- Multi-Spon-
          sored by -- M. of A. CRESPO -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Transportation
        AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in  relation  to  mandating
          ignition interlock devices
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. The vehicle and traffic law is  amended  by  adding  a  new
     2  section 1198-b to read as follows:
     3    §  1198-b.  Installation of ignition interlock devices. 1. Every motor
     4  vehicle, as defined in section one hundred twenty-five of this  chapter,
     5  manufactured  for  use in this state on and after December thirty-first,
     6  two thousand twenty-two, and every second hand  motor  vehicle  sold  in
     7  this state on and after December thirty-first, two thousand twenty-three
     8  which is capable of having an ignition interlock device installed, shall
     9  be  equipped  with  a functional ignition interlock device of a type and
    10  specification as certified by the commissioner  of  health  pursuant  to
    11  subdivision six of section eleven hundred ninety-eight of this article.
    12    2.  Ignition  interlocking  devices for existing motor vehicles regis-
    13  tered in the state. Any motor vehicle as defined in section one  hundred
    14  twenty-five  of  this chapter, shall by December thirty-first, two thou-
    15  sand twenty-three be retrofitted so that all such vehicles are  equipped
    16  with  an  ignition interlocking device in accordance with the provisions
    17  of this section.
    18    3. For the purposes of this section, the term  "ignition  interlocking
    19  device" shall mean any blood alcohol concentration equivalence measuring
    20  device  which connects to a motor vehicle ignition system and prevents a
    21  motor vehicle from being started without first  determining  through  an
    22  essential  deep lung breath sample that the operator's equivalent breath
    23  alcohol level does not exceed the calibrated setting on such device.
    24    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD07263-01-9