Bill Text: NY A06759 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 6759

Introduced

Bill Title: Provides an exception to the requirement that no person shall permit a vehicle to stand unattended without first stopping the engine, if a remote car starter is being used while away from the vehicle to engage the vehicle's climate controls.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to transportation [A06759 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A06759-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          6759

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                       May 8, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. LUNSFORD -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Transportation

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  vehicle  and  traffic law, in relation to rules
          regarding unattended motor vehicles

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1. Subdivision (a) of section 1210 of the vehicle and traffic
     2  law, as amended by chapter 350 of the laws of 1967, is amended  to  read
     3  as follows:
     4    (a)  No person driving or in charge of a motor vehicle shall permit it
     5  to stand unattended without  first  stopping  the  engine,  locking  the
     6  ignition, removing the key from the vehicle, and effectively setting the
     7  brake  thereon  and,  when  standing  upon  any grade, turning the front
     8  wheels to the curb or  side  of  the  highway,  provided,  however,  the
     9  provision  for  removing  the key from the vehicle shall not require the
    10  removal of keys hidden from sight about the vehicle for  convenience  or
    11  emergency.  There shall be an exception from the requirement of stopping
    12  the  engine  when  a  person  driving or in charge of a motor vehicle is
    13  allowing such vehicle to stand unattended if  such  person  is  using  a
    14  remote car starter to turn the engine on while away from the vehicle for
    15  the purposes of engaging such vehicle's climate controls.
    16    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10151-02-3