Bill Text: NY A02929 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires certain vehicles to be equipped with an ignition interlock device, including vehicles transporting hazardous materials, commercial vehicles over 18,000 pounds, and public mass transportation vehicles.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to transportation [A02929 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A02929-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2929
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 28, 2019
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        Introduced  by M. of A. ORTIZ, GALEF, WEPRIN -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M.
          of A. COLTON, CRESPO -- read once and referred  to  the  Committee  on
          Transportation
        AN  ACT  to  amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to requiring
          certain vehicles to be equipped with ignition interlock devices
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  The  vehicle  and  traffic law is amended by adding a new
     2  section 379 to read as follows:
     3    § 379. Ignition interlock device required for certain  vehicles.    1.
     4  Any  motor vehicle described in subdivision one of section three hundred
     5  seventy-eight of this article and any other commercial vehicle which has
     6  a gross combined weight of eighteen thousand pounds  or  more,  and  any
     7  motor vehicle engaged in public mass transportation such as a public bus
     8  or  a school bus, shall be equipped with an ignition interlock device as
     9  defined in section one hundred nineteen-a of this chapter.
    10    2. A violation of any of the provisions of this section or of any rule
    11  or regulation  promulgated  hereunder  shall  constitute  a  misdemeanor
    12  punishable  by  a  fine of not more than one hundred dollars for a first
    13  offense, three hundred fifty dollars for  a  second  offense,  or  seven
    14  hundred  fifty  dollars  for each subsequent offense, or by imprisonment
    15  for not more than thirty days, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
    16    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    17  it shall have become a law.  Effective immediately, the addition, amend-
    18  ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
    19  tation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be  made  and
    20  completed on or before such date.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD07244-01-9