Bill Text: NY A11140 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires inspections of motor vehicle mufflers and exhaust systems to determine compliance with established maximum allowable sound levels.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-11-06 - referred to transportation [A11140 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A11140-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          11140

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    November 6, 2020
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        Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Dinowitz) --
          read once and referred to the Committee on Transportation

        AN  ACT  to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to inspection
          of motor vehicle muffler and exhaust systems

          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 chapter 444 of
     3  the laws of 2016, is amended to read as follows:
     4    (a) A safety inspection shall be made  with  respect  to  the  brakes;
     5  steering  mechanism;  wheel alignment; lights, including but not limited
     6  to the lights which are designed and placed on a vehicle for the purpose
     7  of illuminating the vehicle's license plates; odometer;  tire  pressure;
     8  seat  safety  belts;  shoulder harness safety belts; any window which is
     9  composed of, covered by or treated with any material which has  a  light
    10  transmittance  of  less  than  seventy percent pursuant to section three
    11  hundred seventy-five of this title; muffler or exhaust  system  pursuant
    12  to  subdivision thirty-one of section three-hundred seventy-five of this
    13  title and the maximum allowable sound levels as set forth in table II of
    14  paragraph c of subdivision three of section three-hundred eighty-six  of
    15  this  title, provided that the commissioner shall promulgate regulations
    16  regarding the relative basis  for  testing  such  levels  at  inspection
    17  stations  and such other mechanisms and equipment as shall be determined
    18  by the commissioner to be necessary for proper and safe operations. Such
    19  inspection shall also be made with  respect  to  vehicle  identification
    20  number.  Upon inspection, the mileage appearing on the odometer shall be
    21  recorded upon the inspection sticker.
    22    § 2. This act shall take effect one year after is shall have become  a
    23  law.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD17458-01-0