STATE OF NEW YORK
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4731--A
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 24, 2017
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Introduced by Sen. LARKIN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation -- recom-
mitted to the Committee on Transportation in accordance with Senate
Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to missing or
non-functioning airbags in certain vehicles
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Anthony
2 Amoros Law".
3 § 2. Subdivision 3 of section 23 of the general business law is
4 amended by adding a new paragraph f to read as follows:
5 f. No motor vehicle, which has been manufactured on or after September
6 first, nineteen hundred ninety-seven, shall be sold by an automobile
7 auctioneer unless he or she has disclosed to the buyer whether the vehi-
8 cle, to the best of the automobile auctioneer's knowledge, is missing an
9 inflatable restraint system or contains a non-functioning inflatable
10 restraint system. If the vehicle is missing an inflatable restraint
11 system or contains a non-functioning inflatable restraint system the
12 disclosure of the status of the vehicle's inflatable restraint system
13 shall be made by the auctioneer (i) in a written disclosure made in not
14 less that ten-point bold face type and appearing on the front of the
15 sales contract, receipt, invoice, or other document used in connection
16 with the sale of the vehicle that shall set forth whether the vehicle is
17 missing an inflatable restraint system or contains a non-functioning
18 inflatable restraint system; and (ii) if by affixing a conspicuous sign
19 to the windshield of each vehicle offered for sale, sold or made avail-
20 able for inspection prior to auction that shall disclose that the vehi-
21 cle either is missing an inflatable restraint system or contains a non-
22 functioning inflatable restraint system.
23 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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