Bill Text: NY S03002 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires weather radios in all new motor vehicles sold within the state with a model year of 2024 or later; no car dealership shall increase the cost of a vehicle due to the system including such radio.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION [S03002 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S03002-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3002

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 27, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced by Sens. SEPULVEDA, BIAGGI -- read twice and ordered printed,
          and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation

        AN  ACT  to  amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to requiring
          weather radios in motor vehicles sold within the state  with  a  model
          year of 2024 or later

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Article 9 of the vehicle and  traffic  law  is  amended  by
     2  adding a new section 384 to read as follows:
     3    § 384. Weather radio. 1. Weather radio required. No new motor vehicle,
     4  except  a  vehicle  with  a  model  year of two thousand twenty-three or
     5  earlier, shall be sold in this state unless  such  vehicle  is  equipped
     6  with  a  weather radio, installed as part of the vehicle's audio system,
     7  approved by and conforming to standards established by the commissioner.
     8    2. Weather radio feature. A weather radio shall be capable of  receiv-
     9  ing  the national oceanic and atmospheric administration's daily weather
    10  reports and emergency broadcasts.
    11    3. Costs of weather radios. No car dealership shall increase the  cost
    12  of  a  vehicle  due  to  the vehicle's audio system containing a weather
    13  radio.
    14    4. Regulations. The commissioner shall establish by regulation  stand-
    15  ards for weather radios, and the installation of weather radios in motor
    16  vehicles. The commissioner may prescribe the method of securing approval
    17  of weather radios.
    18    §  2.  The  commissioner of motor vehicles is authorized to promulgate
    19  any rules and regulations necessary for the  implementation  of  section
    20  one  of  this  act  on or before the one hundred twentieth day after the
    21  effective date of this section.
    22    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately; provided,  however,  that
    23  section one of this act shall take effect January 1, 2023.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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