STATE OF NEW YORK
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2154
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 22, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. GANTT -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Transportation
AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to tinting on
motor vehicle windows and making an appropriation therefor
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 12-a of section 375 of the
2 vehicle and traffic law, as amended by chapter 155 of the laws of 1991,
3 is amended to read as follows:
4 (b) No person shall operate any motor vehicle upon any public highway,
5 road or street:
6 (1) the front windshield of which is composed of, covered by or treat-
7 ed with any material which has a light transmittance of less than seven-
8 ty percent unless such materials are limited to the uppermost six inches
9 of the windshield; or
10 (2) the sidewings or side windows of which on either side forward of
11 or adjacent to the operator's seat are composed of, covered by or treat-
12 ed with any material which has a light transmittance of less than seven-
13 ty percent; or
14 (3) [if it is classified as a station wagon, sedan, hardtop, coupe,
15 hatchback or convertible and any] the rear side [window] windows of
16 which are composed of, covered by, or treated with any material which
17 has a light transmittance of less than seventy percent; or
18 (4) the rear window of which is composed of, covered by or treated
19 with any material which has a light transmittance of less than seventy
20 percent. A rear window may have a light transmittance of less than
21 seventy percent if the vehicle is equipped with side mirrors on both
22 sides of the vehicle so adjusted that the driver thereof shall have a
23 clear and full view of the road and condition of traffic behind such
24 vehicle.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 § 2. The sum of fifty thousand dollars ($50,000), or so much thereof
2 as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated out of moneys in the state
3 treasury in the general fund to the credit of the state purposes
4 account, not otherwise appropriated, and made immediately available to
5 the division of criminal justice services for distribution to local law
6 enforcement agencies for the purpose of purchasing tint meters to carry
7 out the provisions of this act relating to the seventy percent light
8 transmittance standard. Such moneys shall be payable on the audit and
9 warrant of the comptroller on vouchers certified or approved in the
10 manner prescribed by law.
11 § 3. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
12 ing the date on which it shall have become a law; provided, however, the
13 provisions of this act shall not apply to persons operating that model
14 year vehicle or earlier model year vehicle if the windows on said vehi-
15 cle were in conformity with the provisions of paragraph (b) of subdivi-
16 sion 12-a of section 375 of the vehicle and traffic law as such para-
17 graph existed on the day preceding the effective date of this act.
