Bill Text: NY S04151 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides exceptions to the prohibition on tinted windows in automobiles.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 3)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION [S04151 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S04151-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4151
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    February 3, 2017
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        Introduced by Sen. MARCHIONE -- 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 providing
          exceptions to the prohibition on tinted windows in automobiles
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Paragraph  (c)  of subdivision 12-a of section 375 of the
     2  vehicle and traffic law, as amended by chapter 135 of the laws of  1994,
     3  is amended to read as follows:
     4    (c)  Any  person  required for medical reasons to be shielded from the
     5  direct rays of the sun and/or  any  person  operating  a  motor  vehicle
     6  belonging  to such person or in which such person is an habitual passen-
     7  ger shall be exempt from the provisions of subparagraphs one and two  of
     8  paragraph  (b) of this subdivision provided the commissioner has granted
     9  an exemption and notice of such exemption is affixed to the  vehicle  as
    10  directed  by  the  commissioner.  An  exemption may be requested for the
    11  following conditions using a form  approved  by  the  commissioner:  (i)
    12  Porphyria; (ii) Xeroderma Pigmentosa; (iii) Severe Drug Photo-Sensitivi-
    13  ty;  and  (iv) albinism. The applicant for such exemption must provide a
    14  physician's statement with the reason for the exemption, the name of the
    15  individual with a medically necessary condition operating or transported
    16  in the vehicle, the specific condition involved, and the  minimum  level
    17  of  light  transmission  required. The commissioner shall only authorize
    18  exemptions where the medical condition certified  by  the  physician  is
    19  contained  on  a list of medical conditions prepared by the commissioner
    20  of health pursuant to subdivision sixteen of section two hundred six  of
    21  the  public health law. If such [such] exemption is granted, the commis-
    22  sioner shall make a record thereof and shall distribute  a  sufficiently
    23  noticeable  sticker  to  the  applicant  to be attached to any window so
    24  shielded or altered pursuant to such exemption.
    25    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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