Bill Text: NY A08582 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires any person, firm, partnership, association, limited liability company, corporation, or other entity that sells new motor vehicle child restraint systems to also sell motor vehicle child restraint system warning devices.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to consumer affairs and protection [A08582 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A08582-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8582

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                   September 13, 2019
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        Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Consumer Affairs and Protection

        AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to the sale of new
          motor vehicle child restraint systems

          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  399-uu to read as follows:
     3    § 399-uu. Motor vehicle child restraint system warning devices. 1.  As
     4  used in this section:
     5    (a)  "Motor  vehicle  child restraint system" shall mean a harness and
     6  restraint system designed for young children to ride in a motor  vehicle
     7  which conforms to the specifications of paragraph (a) of subdivision one
     8  of section twelve hundred twenty-nine-c of the vehicle and traffic law.
     9    (b)  "Motor  vehicle child restraint system warning device" shall mean
    10  an electronic device that connects to a motor  vehicle  child  restraint
    11  system, or is built into a motor vehicle child restraint system, for the
    12  purpose of alerting the driver of a motor vehicle when the motor vehicle
    13  has  been  turned  off  and a child remains harnessed in a motor vehicle
    14  child restraint system.
    15    2. No person, firm, partnership, association, limited liability compa-
    16  ny, corporation, or other entity shall sell or offer to sell a new motor
    17  vehicle child restraint system to  a  consumer  at  retail  unless  such
    18  person,  firm,  partnership,  association,  limited  liability  company,
    19  corporation, or other entity:
    20    (a) maintains in stock and prominently displays within the store motor
    21  vehicle child restraint system warning devices available for  sale  that
    22  are compatible with such motor vehicle child restraint systems; and
    23    (b) posts a notice, in a conspicuous location which may be easily seen
    24  or  reached  by  customers,  that, in a legible format, states: "Leaving
    25  children unattended in an installed motor vehicle child restraint system

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13670-01-9
        A. 8582                             2

     1  may lead to possible injury or death, especially  in  hot  temperatures.
     2  Motor vehicle child restraint system warning devices may prevent leaving
     3  a child unattended in a car when properly installed."
     4    3.  Any  person,  firm,  partnership,  association,  limited liability
     5  company, corporation, or other entity that sells or offers to sell a new
     6  motor vehicle  child  restraint  system  to  a  consumer  at  retail  in
     7  violation  of the provisions of this section shall be liable for a civil
     8  penalty not to exceed five hundred dollars for each violation.
     9    § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
    10  have become a law.