Bill Text: NY A05204 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires passenger cabs be inspected for unsafe carbon monoxide levels and requires information on the warning signs of carbon monoxide poisoning to be distributed with each operator's license, issued or renewed.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to transportation [A05204 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A05204-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5204
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 7, 2019
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        Introduced by M. of A. WALKER -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Transportation
        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  vehicle  and traffic law, in relation to carbon
          monoxide poisoning
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.    Subparagraph  (a)  of paragraph 1 of subdivision (c) of
     2  section 301  of the vehicle and traffic law, as amended by  chapter  444
     3  of the laws of 2016, is amended to read as follows:
     4    (a)  A  safety  inspection  shall  be made with respect to the brakes;
     5  steering mechanism; wheel alignment; lights, including but  not  limited
     6  to the lights which are designed and placed on a vehicle for the purpose
     7  of  illuminating  the vehicle's license plates; odometer; tire pressure;
     8  seat safety belts; shoulder harness safety belts; exhaust system for the
     9  purposes of ensuring that carbon monoxide levels in the cab of the vehi-
    10  cle have not reached unsafe levels in excess of 70  parts  per  million;
    11  any window which is composed of, covered by or treated with any material
    12  which has a light transmittance of less than seventy percent pursuant to
    13  section  three  hundred  seventy-five of this title and such other mech-
    14  anisms and equipment as shall be determined by the  commissioner  to  be
    15  necessary  for proper and safe operations. Such inspection shall also be
    16  made with respect to vehicle identification number. Upon inspection, the
    17  mileage appearing on the odometer shall be recorded upon the  inspection
    18  sticker.
    19    §  2.  The  vehicle and traffic law is amended by adding a new section
    20  397-c to read as follows:
    21    § 397-c. Education against dangers of carbon monoxide poisoning.   The
    22  commissioner,  in consultation with the chair of the consumer protection
    23  board, shall prepare and distribute with each operator's license, wheth-
    24  er issued or renewed, a pamphlet on the warning signs of carbon monoxide
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05955-01-9
        A. 5204                             2
     1  poisoning and the appropriate actions to be taken to prevent such  acci-
     2  dental poisoning.
     3    § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
     4  it shall have become a law.  Effective immediately, the addition, amend-
     5  ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
     6  tation  of this act on its effective date are authorized and directed to
     7  be made and completed on or before such effective date.