Includes the examination of tinted or shaded front windshields and driver's side and passenger side windows in the periodic inspection of motor vehicles.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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4386
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 4, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. DenDEKKER -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Transportation
AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to including
the examination of tinted or shaded front windshields and driver's
side and passenger side windows in the periodic inspection of motor
vehicles
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subparagraph (a) of paragraph 1 of subdivision (c) of
2 section 301 of the vehicle and traffic law, as amended by chapter 444 of
3 the laws of 2016, is amended to read as follows:
4 (a) A safety inspection shall be made with respect to the brakes;
5 steering mechanism; wheel alignment; lights, including but not limited
6 to the lights which are designed and placed on a vehicle for the purpose
7 of illuminating the vehicle's license plates; odometer; tire pressure;
8 seat safety belts; shoulder harness safety belts; any windshield, front
9 driver's side or front passenger's side window which is composed of,
10 covered by or treated with any material which has a light transmittance
11 of less than seventy percent pursuant to section three hundred seventy-
12 five of this title and such other mechanisms and equipment as shall be
13 determined by the commissioner to be necessary for proper and safe oper-
14 ations. Such inspection shall also be made with respect to vehicle iden-
15 tification number. Upon inspection, the mileage appearing on the odome-
16 ter shall be recorded upon the inspection sticker.
17 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
18 ing the date on which it shall have become a law. Effective immediately,
19 the commissioner of motor vehicles is authorized to promulgate any and
20 all rules and regulations necessary and take any other measures neces-
21 sary to implement this act on its effective date on or before such date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD08021-01-9
