Bill Text: NY S03743 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires passenger cabs be inspected for unsafe carbon monoxide levels and requires information on the warning signs of carbon monoxide poisoning to be distributed with each operator's license, issued or renewed.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION [S03743 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S03743-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3743
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    February 13, 2019
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  PARKER -- 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  carbon
          monoxide poisoning
          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
     3  of 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; exhaust system for the  purposes  of
    12  ensuring  that carbon monoxide levels in the cab of the vehicle have not
    13  reached unsafe levels in excess of seventy parts per  million  and  such
    14  other mechanisms and equipment as shall be determined by the commission-
    15  er to be necessary for proper and safe operations. Such inspection shall
    16  also  be  made  with  respect  to  vehicle  identification  number. Upon
    17  inspection, the mileage appearing on the odometer shall be recorded upon
    18  the inspection sticker.
    19    § 2. The vehicle and traffic law is amended by adding  a  new  section
    20  397-c to read as follows:
    21    §  397-c. Education against dangers of carbon monoxide poisoning.  The
    22  commissioner, in consultation with the chair of the consumer  protection
    23  board, shall prepare and distribute with each operator's license, wheth-
    24  er issued or renewed, a pamphlet on the warning signs of carbon monoxide
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05955-02-9
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     1  poisoning  and the appropriate actions to be taken to prevent such acci-
     2  dental poisoning.
     3    § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
     4  it  shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amend-
     5  ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
     6  tation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be  made  and
     7  completed on or before such effective date.