Requires any person, firm, partnership, association, limited liability company, corporation, or other entity that sells new motor vehicle child restraint systems to also sell motor vehicle child restraint system warning devices.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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381--A
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY(Prefiled)
January 6, 2021
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Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Consumer Affairs and Protection -- committee discharged, bill
amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
tee
AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to the sale of new
motor vehicle child restraint systems
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The general business law is amended by adding a new section
2 399-iii to read as follows:
3 § 399-iii. Child restraint alarm. 1. As used in this section:
4 (a) "Child restraint system" shall mean any device, used in conjunc-
5 tion with safety belts, designed for use in a motor vehicle to restrain,
6 seat, or position children and which meets the applicable Federal Motor
7 Vehicle Safety Standards set forth in 49 C.F.R. 571.213.
8 (b) "Child restraint alarm" shall mean any device that attaches to the
9 child restraint system or conjoined safety belt that alerts the driver
10 when he or she has exited the vehicle without unbuckling the child from
11 the child restraint system. This alarm may connect with a smart device
12 and send either text alerts, e-mails or sound an audible alarm.
13 2. A person, firm, partnership, association, limited liability compa-
14 ny, corporation, or other entity may sell or offer to sell a child
15 restraint system if the retailer:
16 (a) maintains in stock and prominently displays within the store, the
17 child restraint alarms for sale that are compatible with such child
18 restraint systems; and
19 (b) posts a notice, in a conspicuous location which may be easily seen
20 or reached by customers, in a legible format, which states: "Heat stroke
21 is the leading cause of non-car crash vehicular death in children under
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 the age of 15. Child restraint alarms, when used properly, may help to
2 prevent vehicular death of children."
3 3. Any person, firm, partnership, association, limited liability
4 company, corporation, or other entity that sells or offers to sell new
5 child restraint systems to a consumer at retail in violation of the
6 provisions of this section shall be liable for a civil penalty not to
7 exceed five hundred dollars for each violation.
8 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
9 have become a law.
