NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)
 
BILL NUMBER: A1805
SPONSOR: Dinowitz (MS)
 
TITLE OF BILL:
An act to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to prohibiting
tinted windows in sport utility vehicles
 
PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:
This bill amends the vehicle and traffic law by holding Sport Utility
vehicles to the same 70% tinting standard as other passenger vehicles.
 
SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS:
Section one of the bill amends subparagraphs 3 and 4 of paragraph (b) of
subdivision 12-a of § 375 of the vehicle and traffic'law to include
sport utility vehicles as motor vehicles which are prohibited to be
operated on a public highway, road, or street if any rear side window
has a light transmittance of less than seventy percent. This section
also removes a provision that states that rear windows may be tinted
darker if the car is equipped with side mirrors.
 
JUSTIFICATION:
Under current Vehicle and Traffic law, sport utility vehicles are held
to different tinting laws and this bill would hold SUVs to the same
standards as other passenger vehicles.
 
PRIOR LEGISLATIVEHISTORY:
2021-22: A.2188 -Transportation
2019-20: A.3682-Transportation
2017-18: A.3726-Transportation
2015-16: A.303 -Transportation
2013-14: A.361 -Transportation
2011-12: A.792 -Transportation
2009-10: A.1042 -Transportation
2007-08: A.4423 -Transportation
2005-06: A.8260 -Transportation
 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
None.
 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after it
shall have become a law.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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1805
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 23, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. DINOWITZ, PAULIN, BENEDETTO, PEOPLES-STOKES --
Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. COLTON -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Transportation
AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to prohibiting
tinted windows in sport utility vehicles
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subparagraphs 3 and 4 of paragraph (b) of subdivision 12-a
2 of section 375 of the vehicle and traffic law, as amended by chapter 155
3 of the laws of 1991, are amended to read as follows:
4 (3) if it is classified as a station wagon, sedan, sport utility vehi-
5 cle, hardtop, coupe, hatchback or convertible and any rear side window
6 has a light transmittance of less than seventy percent; or
7 (4) the rear window of which is composed of, covered by or treated
8 with any material which has a light transmittance of less than seventy
9 percent. [A rear window may have a light transmittance of less than
10 seventy percent if the vehicle is equipped with side mirrors on both
11 sides of the vehicle so adjusted that the driver thereof shall have a
12 clear and full view of the road and condition of traffic behind such
13 vehicle.]
14 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
15 it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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