Bill Text: NY A04384 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Directs the department of motor vehicles to maintain an internet link of motor vehicle safety recalls; requires official inspection stations to make an inquiry of such link upon inspection of a vehicle, and if such a recall exists on the vehicle, to advise the owner thereof.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 3-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to transportation [A04384 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A04384-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4384
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 4, 2019
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  DenDEKKER  --  read once and referred to the
          Committee on Transportation
        AN ACT to amend  the  vehicle  and  traffic  law,  in  relation  to  the
          provision  of  notice  to  owners  whose motor vehicles are subject to
          safety recalls
          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 210-a to read as follows:
     3    § 210-a. Motor vehicle safety recall information.  1.  The  department
     4  shall   make   available   on   its   internet   website,   a   link  to
     5  "http://www.safercar.gov" operated by the National Highway Traffic Safe-
     6  ty Administration and providing all motor vehicle safety recalls,  based
     7  on  motor  vehicle  make, model, year and vehicle identification number,
     8  issued by such administration in accordance with  the  National  Traffic
     9  and Motor Vehicle Safety Act.
    10    2.  The  department  shall  promote  and  provide public notice of the
    11  availability of information on motor vehicle  safety  recalls  from  the
    12  department's  website  and  the National Highway Traffic Safety Adminis-
    13  tration at its website:  "http://www.safercar.gov". Such  promotion  and
    14  notice  shall  be provided on the department's internet website and on a
    15  separate insert provided to motor vehicle owners upon  the  issuance  or
    16  renewal of a registration pursuant to article fourteen of this chapter.
    17    § 2. Subdivision (a) of section 304 of the vehicle and traffic law, as
    18  amended  by chapter 608 of the laws of 1993, is amended and a new subdi-
    19  vision (b-1) is added to read as follows:
    20    (a) No certificate or certificates of inspection shall be issued by an
    21  official inspection station until the mechanisms and other equipment, as
    22  specified in subdivision (c) of section three hundred one [(c)] of  this
    23  [chapter] article, of the motor vehicle inspected are in proper and safe
    24  condition  and comply with the rules and regulations of the commissioner
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  and with the laws of this state, and the emissions of such motor vehicle
     2  conform with subdivision (d) of section three hundred one of this  arti-
     3  cle and regulations promulgated pursuant thereto at the time the certif-
     4  icate is issued.
     5    (b-1)  An  official  inspection station shall submit to the department
     6  the vehicle identification number of each vehicle subject to inspection.
     7  The department, after review of  the  National  Highway  Traffic  Safety
     8  Administration's  website  "http://www.safercar.gov",  shall produce and
     9  provide to the official inspection station a vehicle  inspection  report
    10  including a statement of any motor vehicle safety recall or recalls that
    11  the  motor vehicle is subject to, that such recalls may be repaired by a
    12  motor vehicle dealer approved by the manufacturer of  the  vehicle,  and
    13  that  further  information  on  the  recalls  may  be  obtained from the
    14  National  Highway  Traffic  Safety  Administration   on   its   website:
    15  "http://www.safercar.gov". The official inspection station shall deliver
    16  such  printed  vehicle  inspection  report to the owner of the inspected
    17  motor vehicle. If the owner is a dealer, the dealer shall  provide  such
    18  vehicle  inspection report to the next retail purchaser or lessee of the
    19  motor vehicle.
    20    § 3. This act shall take effect on the first of January next  succeed-
    21  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.  Effective immediately
    22  the  addition,  amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation neces-
    23  sary for the implementation of  this  act  on  its  effective  date  are
    24  authorized to be made and completed on or before such date.