Bill Text: NY A01230 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to requiring motor vehicle and motor cycle tires and rims to bear a permanent serial number.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to consumer affairs and protection [A01230 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A01230-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1230
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 14, 2019
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. M. G. MILLER -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Consumer Affairs and Protection
        AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to requiring  tire
          and rim serial numbers for motor vehicles and motor cycle vehicles
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. The general business law is amended by adding a new section
     2  198-d to read as follows:
     3    § 198-d. Tire and rim serial numbers. 1. No motor vehicle tires, motor
     4  cycle tires, motor vehicle rims, or motor  cycle  rims  manufactured  or
     5  assembled  on  or after the effective date of this section shall be sold
     6  or offered for sale in this state unless it has  an  identifying  serial
     7  number  that distinguishes that tire or rim from all other tires or rims
     8  of the same brand or model permanently and visibly engraved, stamped  or
     9  labeled  in  readily legible boldfaced figures in such a manner that the
    10  serial number will be readily visible and that, in the case of labeling,
    11  such label cannot be removed without being defaced or destroyed.
    12    2. Any person, corporation, association or partnership who  assembles,
    13  distributes or manufactures such tires or rims on or after the effective
    14  date  of  this  section, in violation of subdivision one of this section
    15  shall be subject to a civil penalty not to exceed three hundred dollars.
    16  In addition to any other penalty as provided  by  law,  any  person  who
    17  intentionally alters, conceals, defaces, destroys, or removes such seri-
    18  al  number  with  the  intent  to  deprive  the rightful owner of lawful
    19  possession shall be guilty of a violation punishable by a  fine  not  to
    20  exceed three hundred dollars.
    21    3.  No  person  regularly  engaged  in  the  business  of manufacture,
    22  distribution, or retail sale of such tires or rims shall  be  deemed  to
    23  have  violated  the provisions of this section if such person shows by a
    24  preponderance of evidence that the violation  was  not  intentional  and
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  resulted  from  bona  fide error made notwithstanding the maintenance of
     2  procedures reasonably adopted to avoid any such error.
     3    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
     4  it shall have become a law.