STATE OF NEW YORK
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5298
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
April 23, 2019
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Introduced by Sen. ROBACH -- 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 authorizing
exemptions for tinted windows for persons suffering from skin cancers
such as melanoma
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (c) of subdivision 12-a of section 375 of the
2 vehicle and traffic law, as amended by chapter 135 of the laws of 1994,
3 is amended to read as follows:
4 (c) Any person required for medical reasons to be shielded from the
5 direct rays of the sun and/or any person operating a motor vehicle
6 belonging to such person or in which such person is an habitual passen-
7 ger shall be exempt from the provisions of subparagraphs one and two of
8 paragraph (b) of this subdivision provided the commissioner has granted
9 an exemption and notice of such exemption is affixed to the vehicle as
10 directed by the commissioner. The applicant for such exemption must
11 provide a physician's statement with the reason for the exemption, the
12 name of the individual with a medically necessary condition operating or
13 transported in the vehicle, the specific condition involved, and the
14 minimum level of light transmission required. The commissioner shall
15 [only] authorize exemptions for persons suffering from skin cancers,
16 including but not limited to melanoma, and where the medical condition
17 certified by the physician is contained on a list of medical conditions
18 prepared by the commissioner of health pursuant to subdivision sixteen
19 of section two hundred six of the public health law. If such [such]
20 exemption is granted, the commissioner shall make a record thereof and
21 shall distribute a sufficiently noticeable sticker to the applicant to
22 be attached to any window so shielded or altered pursuant to such
23 exemption.
24 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD11321-01-9
