Bill Text: NY A05272 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires disclosure of a missing or non-functional airbag for certain vehicles at resale or auction.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 22-9)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-04-16 - print number 5272a [A05272 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A05272-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         5272--A
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 7, 2017
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  ZEBROWSKI,  PAULIN,  JENNE, GALEF, WILLIAMS,
          GUNTHER, COOK, DINOWITZ, MOSLEY, ORTIZ, JAFFEE, BUCHWALD, WALSH, RAIA,
          FINCH,  CASTORINA,  MURRAY,  MONTESANO,  BLAKE,  GOTTFRIED,  VANEL  --
          Multi-Sponsored  by  --  M.  of  A.  BRAUNSTEIN,  CAHILL, ENGLEBRIGHT,
          GIGLIO, HEVESI, JEAN-PIERRE, McDONOUGH, PALMESANO, SEPULVEDA, SIMON --
          read once and referred to the Committee on Transportation -- recommit-
          ted 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 committee
        AN ACT to amend the general business law,  in  relation  to  missing  or
          non-functioning airbags in certain vehicles
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. This act shall be known and may be cited  as  the  "Anthony
     2  Amoros Law".
     3    §  2.  Subdivision  3  of  section  23  of the general business law is
     4  amended by adding a new paragraph f to read as follows:
     5    f. No motor vehicle, which has been manufactured on or after September
     6  first, nineteen hundred ninety-seven, shall be  sold  by  an  automobile
     7  auctioneer unless he or she has disclosed to the buyer whether the vehi-
     8  cle, to the best of the automobile auctioneer's knowledge, is missing an
     9  inflatable  restraint  system  or  contains a non-functioning inflatable
    10  restraint system. If the vehicle  is  missing  an  inflatable  restraint
    11  system  or  contains  a  non-functioning inflatable restraint system the
    12  disclosure of the status of the vehicle's  inflatable  restraint  system
    13  shall  be made by the auctioneer (i) in a written disclosure made in not
    14  less that ten-point bold face type and appearing on  the  front  of  the
    15  sales  contract,  receipt, invoice, or other document used in connection
    16  with the sale of the vehicle that shall set forth whether the vehicle is
    17  missing an inflatable restraint system  or  contains  a  non-functioning
    18  inflatable  restraint system; and (ii) if by affixing a conspicuous sign
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  to the windshield of each vehicle offered for sale, sold or made  avail-
     2  able  for inspection prior to auction that shall disclose that the vehi-
     3  cle either is missing an inflatable restraint system or contains a  non-
     4  functioning inflatable restraint system.
     5    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.