Requires motor vehicles manufactured or assembled after July 1, 2021 that are sold or registered in this state to have an option to be equipped with a carbon monoxide (CO) detector.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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6445--A
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 7, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. CRESPO -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Transportation -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to carbon
monoxide detectors in vehicles manufactured and assembled after July
1, 2021
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 384 to read as follows:
3 § 384. Carbon monoxide detectors. No motor vehicle manufactured or
4 assembled after July first, two thousand twenty-one shall be sold or
5 registered in this state unless such vehicle has the option to be
6 equipped with a carbon monoxide (CO) detector to ensure that carbon
7 monoxide levels in the cab of the vehicle have not reached unsafe
8 levels.
9 § 2. The commissioner of the department of motor vehicles shall estab-
10 lish by regulation standards for carbon monoxide detectors in vehicles.
11 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD10290-02-9
