Bill Text: NY A06135 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Enacts the "safe cars safe streets act"; requires the inspection of tinted or shaded windows, airbag systems, and antilock brake systems during the required periodic inspection of motor vehicles.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 18-6)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-03-02 - print number 6135a [A06135 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A06135-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         6135--A
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                     March 16, 2015
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  DenDEKKER, ORTIZ, MILLER, BENEDETTO, MOSLEY,
          COOK, BLAKE, GOTTFRIED, MARKEY, STECK,  ARROYO,  RA,  SIMOTAS,  GALEF,
          MURRAY,  HOOPER, GRAF -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. CLARK, CROUCH,
          GLICK, LUPINACCI, McDONOUGH, SCHIMEL, SIMON -- 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 committee
        AN ACT to amend  the  vehicle  and  traffic  law,  in  relation  to  the
          inspection  of  tinted or shaded windows, airbag systems, and antilock
          brake systems during the required periodic inspection of  motor  vehi-
          cles
          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 "safe  cars
     2  safe streets act of 2016".
     3    §  2.  Subparagraphs  (a) and (b) of paragraph 1 of subdivision (c) of
     4  section 301 of the vehicle and traffic law, subparagraph (a) as  amended
     5  by  section  5 of part V1 of chapter 62 of the laws of 2003 and subpara-
     6  graph (b) as added by chapter 161 of the laws of 1996, are amended and a
     7  new subparagraph (c) is added to read as follows:
     8    (a) A safety inspection shall be made  with  respect  to  the  brakes;
     9  steering  mechanism;  wheel alignment; lights, including but not limited
    10  to the lights which are designed and placed on a vehicle for the purpose
    11  of illuminating the vehicle's license plates; odometer;  tire  pressure;
    12  seat  safety  belts;  shoulder harness safety belts; any window which is
    13  composed of, covered by or treated with any material which has  a  light
    14  transmittance  of  less  than  seventy percent pursuant to section three
    15  hundred seventy-five of this title; and such other mechanisms and equip-
    16  ment as shall be determined by the  commissioner  to  be  necessary  for
    17  proper  and  safe  operations.  Such  inspection shall also be made with
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD09922-02-6