Bill Text: NY A00550 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 550

Introduced

Bill Title: Requires that for hire vehicles with a chassis which was manufactured and then altered for the purpose of transporting ten or more occupants, including the driver, be equipped with an operable carbon monoxide detector.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-3)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-08 - referred to transportation [A00550 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-A00550-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           550

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 8, 2025
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. PAULIN, SANTABARBARA, TAYLOR, CRUZ, WILLIAMS,
          COOK, SMULLEN, McDONOUGH -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of  A.  DeSTEFANO
          -- read once and referred to the Committee on Transportation

        AN  ACT  to  amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to requiring
          that certain motor vehicles shall be  equipped  with  operable  carbon
          monoxide detectors

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 9 of section 375 of  the  vehicle  and  traffic
     2  law,  as  amended by chapter 576 of the laws of 1985, is amended to read
     3  as follows:
     4    9. a. Every omnibus operating upon the public highways  of  the  state
     5  having  a carrying capacity of ten or more passengers, shall be equipped
     6  with one hand fire extinguisher of at least 4 B:C Underwriters'  Labora-
     7  tories rating or a similar rating by any qualified laboratory or testing
     8  organization  which  meets  the criteria of American Society for Testing
     9  Materials test E548-76. Fire extinguishers shall be kept in good operat-
    10  ing condition at all times and must be mounted in a place readily acces-
    11  sible for use.
    12    b. Every for-hire vehicle operated or driven upon the public  highways
    13  of  the state with a chassis which was manufactured and then altered for
    14  the purpose of transporting ten or more occupants, including the driver,
    15  shall be equipped with an operable carbon monoxide detector. The commis-
    16  sioner, in consultation with the commissioner of  transportation,  shall
    17  promulgate  rules and regulations as such commissioner shall deem neces-
    18  sary to carry out the provisions of this paragraph.
    19    § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
    20  have become a law.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02607-01-5