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                                   2154
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             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:

   Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 12-a of  section  375  of  the
 vehicle  and traffic law, as amended by chapter 155 of the laws of 1991,
 is amended to read as follows:
   (b) No person shall operate any motor vehicle upon any public highway,
 road or street:
   (1) the front windshield of which is composed of, covered by or treat-
 ed with any material which has a light transmittance of less than seven-
 ty percent unless such materials are limited to the uppermost six inches
 of the windshield; or
   (2) the sidewings or side windows of which on either side  forward  of
 or adjacent to the operator's seat are composed of, covered by or treat-
 ed with any material which has a light transmittance of less than seven-
 ty percent; or
   (3)  [if  it  is classified as a station wagon, sedan, hardtop, coupe,
 hatchback or convertible and any] THE  rear  side  [window]  WINDOWS  OF
 WHICH  ARE  COMPOSED  OF, COVERED BY, OR TREATED WITH ANY MATERIAL WHICH
 has a light transmittance of less than seventy percent; or
   (4) the rear window of which is composed of,  covered  by  or  treated
 with  any  material which has a light transmittance of less than seventy
 percent. A rear window may have  a  light  transmittance  of  less  than
 seventy  percent  if  the  vehicle is equipped with side mirrors on both
 sides of the vehicle so adjusted that the driver thereof  shall  have  a
 clear  and  full  view  of the road and condition of traffic behind such
 vehicle.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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   § 2. The sum of fifty thousand dollars ($50,000), or so  much  thereof
 as  may  be necessary, is hereby appropriated out of moneys in the state
 treasury in the general  fund  to  the  credit  of  the  state  purposes
 account,  not  otherwise appropriated, and made immediately available to
 the  division of criminal justice services for distribution to local law
 enforcement agencies for the purpose of purchasing tint meters to  carry
 out  the  provisions  of  this act relating to the seventy percent light
 transmittance standard. Such moneys shall be payable on  the  audit  and
 warrant  of  the  comptroller  on  vouchers certified or approved in the
 manner prescribed by law.
   § 3. This act shall take effect on the first of January next  succeed-
 ing the date on which it shall have become a law; provided, however, the
 provisions  of  this act shall not apply to persons operating that model
 year vehicle or earlier model year vehicle if the windows on said  vehi-
 cle  were in conformity with the provisions of paragraph (b) of subdivi-
 sion 12-a of section 375 of the vehicle and traffic law  as  such  para-
 graph existed on the day preceding the effective date of this act.