Bill Text: NY A03864 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires automobiles sold in this state with model year 2024 and thereafter to be equipped with a blind spot monitoring device.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-05-10 - print number 3864a [A03864 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A03864-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         3864--A
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 30, 2017
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        Introduced  by M. of A. ORTIZ -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Transportation -- recommitted to the Committee on Transportation in
          accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged,  bill
          amended,  ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
          tee
        AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in  relation  to  requiring
          all  new motor vehicles sold in this state to be equipped with a blind
          spot monitoring device
          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 379 to read as follows:
     3    § 379. Blind spot monitoring device. 1. For purposes of this  section,
     4  the following terms shall have the following meanings:
     5    a.  "blind  spot  monitoring  device"  shall  mean a system of digital
     6  cameras or other media recording devices fitted within the  body  or  on
     7  the exterior of a motor vehicle which is capable of monitoring all blind
     8  spots  associated  with such motor vehicle and which generates a warning
     9  to the operator of such motor vehicle, by means of a light, a buzzer  or
    10  both, when any object is detected in such blind spot; and
    11    b.  "blind spot" shall mean an area of the road that cannot be seen by
    12  the operator of a motor vehicle while looking forward or through  either
    13  the rear-view or side mirrors.
    14    2. Commencing with model year two thousand twenty-four and every model
    15  year  thereafter,  every automobile sold in this state shall be equipped
    16  with a blind spot monitoring device. The commissioner is hereby  author-
    17  ized  and directed to promulgate rules and regulations necessary for the
    18  implementation of this section.
    19    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD08362-02-8