Bill Text: NY A02929 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
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
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 2929 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 28, 2019 ___________ 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