Bill Text: NY A00361 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Relates to prohibiting tinted windows in sport utility vehicles.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 13-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-01-08 - referred to transportation [A00361 Detail]
Download: New_York-2013-A00361-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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361
2013-2014 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
(PREFILED)
January 9, 2013
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Introduced by M. of A. DINOWITZ, GALEF, MILLMAN, PAULIN, CLARK, BENEDET-
TO, PEOPLES-STOKES -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. BRENNAN, COLTON,
GOTTFRIED, MAGEE, ROBINSON -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Transportation
AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to prohibiting
tinted windows in sport utility vehicles
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
1 Section 1. Subparagraphs 3 and 4 of paragraph (b) of subdivision 12-a
2 of section 375 of the vehicle and traffic law, as amended by chapter 155
3 of the laws of 1991, are amended to read as follows:
4 (3) if it is classified as a station wagon, sedan, SPORT UTILITY VEHI-
5 CLE, hardtop, coupe, hatchback or convertible and any rear side window
6 has a light transmittance of less than seventy percent; or
7 (4) the rear window of which is composed of, covered by or treated
8 with any material which has a light transmittance of less than seventy
9 percent. [A rear window may have a light transmittance of less than
10 seventy percent if the vehicle is equipped with side mirrors on both
11 sides of the vehicle so adjusted that the driver thereof shall have a
12 clear and full view of the road and condition of traffic behind such
13 vehicle.]
14 S 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
15 it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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