Mandates the installation of ignition interlock devices by 2022 for motor vehicles manufactured for use in this state; mandates all motor vehicles in NYS shall be equipped with such devices by 2023.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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2741
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 25, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. ORTIZ, DenDEKKER, WEPRIN, THIELE -- Multi-Spon-
sored 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 mandating
ignition interlock devices
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 1198-b to read as follows:
3 § 1198-b. Installation of ignition interlock devices. 1. Every motor
4 vehicle, as defined in section one hundred twenty-five of this chapter,
5 manufactured for use in this state on and after December thirty-first,
6 two thousand twenty-two, and every second hand motor vehicle sold in
7 this state on and after December thirty-first, two thousand twenty-three
8 which is capable of having an ignition interlock device installed, shall
9 be equipped with a functional ignition interlock device of a type and
10 specification as certified by the commissioner of health pursuant to
11 subdivision six of section eleven hundred ninety-eight of this article.
12 2. Ignition interlocking devices for existing motor vehicles regis-
13 tered in the state. Any motor vehicle as defined in section one hundred
14 twenty-five of this chapter, shall by December thirty-first, two thou-
15 sand twenty-three be retrofitted so that all such vehicles are equipped
16 with an ignition interlocking device in accordance with the provisions
17 of this section.
18 3. For the purposes of this section, the term "ignition interlocking
19 device" shall mean any blood alcohol concentration equivalence measuring
20 device which connects to a motor vehicle ignition system and prevents a
21 motor vehicle from being started without first determining through an
22 essential deep lung breath sample that the operator's equivalent breath
23 alcohol level does not exceed the calibrated setting on such device.
24 § 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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