Requires passenger cabs be inspected for unsafe carbon monoxide levels and requires information on the warning signs of carbon monoxide poisoning to be distributed with each operator's license, issued or renewed.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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1059
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE(Prefiled)
January 5, 2011
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Introduced by Sen. PARKER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation
AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to carbon
monoxide poisoning
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 section 5 of
3 part V1 of chapter 62 of the laws of 2003, is amended to read as
4 follows:
5 (a) A safety inspection shall be made with respect to the brakes;
6 steering mechanism; wheel alignment; lights, including but not limited
7 to the lights which are designed and placed on a vehicle for the purpose
8 of illuminating the vehicle's license plates; odometer; tire pressure;
9 seat safety belts; shoulder harness safety belts; exhaust system for the
10 purposes of ensuring that carbon monoxide levels in the cab of the vehi-
11 cle have not reached unsafe levels in excess of 70 parts per million and
12 such other mechanisms and equipment as shall be determined by the
13 commissioner to be necessary for proper and safe operations. Such
14 inspection shall also be made with respect to vehicle identification
15 number. Upon inspection, the mileage appearing on the odometer shall be
16 recorded upon the inspection sticker.
17 § 2. The vehicle and traffic law is amended by adding a new section
18 397-c to read as follows:
19 § 397-c. Education against dangers of carbon monoxide poisoning. The
20 commissioner, in consultation with the chair of the consumer protection
21 board, shall prepare and distribute with each operator's license, wheth-
22 er issued or renewed, a pamphlet on the warning signs of carbon monoxide
23 poisoning and the appropriate actions to be taken to prevent such acci-
24 dental poisoning.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
2 it shall have become a law; provided, however, that effective immediate-
3 ly, the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation
4 necessary for the implementation of this act on its effective date are
5 authorized and directed to be made and completed on or before such
6 effective date.
