Bill Text: NY A09342 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires motor vehicles manufactured or assembled after July first, two thousand seventeen that are sold or registered in this state to have an option to be equipped with a carbon monoxide (CO) detector.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-02-23 - referred to transportation [A09342 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A09342-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9342
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 23, 2016
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        Introduced by M. of A. CRESPO -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Transportation
        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  vehicle  and traffic law, in relation to carbon
          monoxide detectors in vehicles manufactured and assembled  after  July
          1, 2017
          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 384 to read as follows:
     3    §  384.  Carbon  monoxide  detectors. No motor vehicle manufactured or
     4  assembled after July first, two thousand  seventeen  shall  be  sold  or
     5  registered  in  this  state  unless  such  vehicle  has the option to be
     6  equipped with a carbon monoxide (CO)  detector  to  ensure  that  carbon
     7  monoxide  levels  in  the  cab  of  the  vehicle have not reached unsafe
     8  levels.
     9    § 2. The commissioner of the department of motor vehicles shall estab-
    10  lish by regulation standards for carbon monoxide detectors in vehicles.
    11    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14091-01-6