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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8582
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
September 13, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Consumer Affairs and Protection
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-uu to read as follows:
3 § 399-uu. Motor vehicle child restraint system warning devices. 1. As
4 used in this section:
5 (a) "Motor vehicle child restraint system" shall mean a harness and
6 restraint system designed for young children to ride in a motor vehicle
7 which conforms to the specifications of paragraph (a) of subdivision one
8 of section twelve hundred twenty-nine-c of the vehicle and traffic law.
9 (b) "Motor vehicle child restraint system warning device" shall mean
10 an electronic device that connects to a motor vehicle child restraint
11 system, or is built into a motor vehicle child restraint system, for the
12 purpose of alerting the driver of a motor vehicle when the motor vehicle
13 has been turned off and a child remains harnessed in a motor vehicle
14 child restraint system.
15 2. No person, firm, partnership, association, limited liability compa-
16 ny, corporation, or other entity shall sell or offer to sell a new motor
17 vehicle child restraint system to a consumer at retail unless such
18 person, firm, partnership, association, limited liability company,
19 corporation, or other entity:
20 (a) maintains in stock and prominently displays within the store motor
21 vehicle child restraint system warning devices available for sale that
22 are compatible with such motor vehicle child restraint systems; and
23 (b) posts a notice, in a conspicuous location which may be easily seen
24 or reached by customers, that, in a legible format, states: "Leaving
25 children unattended in an installed motor vehicle child restraint system
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD13670-01-9
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1 may lead to possible injury or death, especially in hot temperatures.
2 Motor vehicle child restraint system warning devices may prevent leaving
3 a child unattended in a car when properly installed."
4 3. Any person, firm, partnership, association, limited liability
5 company, corporation, or other entity that sells or offers to sell a new
6 motor vehicle child restraint system to a consumer at retail in
7 violation of the provisions of this section shall be liable for a civil
8 penalty not to exceed five hundred dollars for each violation.
9 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
10 have become a law.