Requires weather radios in all new motor vehicles sold within the state with a model year of 2022 or later; no car dealership shall increase the cost of a vehicle due to the system including such radio.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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1706
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 15, 2019
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Introduced by Sen. SEPULVEDA -- 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 requiring
weather radios in motor vehicles sold within the state with a model
year of 2022 or later
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Article 9 of the vehicle and traffic law is amended by
2 adding a new section 384 to read as follows:
3 § 384. Weather radio. 1. Weather radio required. No new motor vehicle,
4 except a vehicle with a model year of two thousand twenty-one or earli-
5 er, shall be sold in this state unless such vehicle is equipped with a
6 weather radio, installed as part of the vehicle's audio system, approved
7 by and conforming to standards established by the commissioner.
8 2. Weather radio feature. A weather radio shall be capable of receiv-
9 ing the national oceanic and atmospheric administration's daily weather
10 reports and emergency broadcasts.
11 3. Costs of weather radios. No car dealership shall increase the cost
12 of a vehicle due to the vehicle's audio system containing a weather
13 radio.
14 4. Regulations. The commissioner shall establish by regulation stand-
15 ards for weather radios, and the installation of weather radios in motor
16 vehicles. The commissioner may prescribe the method of securing approval
17 of weather radios.
18 § 2. The commissioner of motor vehicles is authorized to promulgate
19 any rules and regulations necessary for the implementation of section
20 one of this act on or before the one hundred twentieth day after the
21 effective date of this section.
22 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that
23 section one of this act shall take effect January 1, 2021.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD07062-01-9
