STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1631 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 15, 2019 ___________ Introduced by Sen. SKOUFIS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Consumer Protection 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. LBD05557-01-9