Bill Text: NY S06862 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced
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: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2016-06-15 - referred to transportation [S06862 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-S06862-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6862 IN SENATE March 2, 2016 ___________ Introduced by Sen. DeFRANCISCO -- 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 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 18 respect to vehicle identification number. Upon inspection, the mileage 19 appearing on the odometer shall be recorded upon the inspection sticker. 20 (b) In the case of any passenger car manufactured on or after Septem- 21 ber first, nineteen hundred ninety-seven, [during the course of the22vehicle safety inspection, the readiness of] a safety inspection shall 23 be made with respect to the inflatable restraint system, by means of the 24 readiness indicator, shall be noted on the invoice supplied to the 25 consumer. The system's lack of readiness shall [not] be considered EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD09922-03-6