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                                   2741
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 25, 2019
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 Introduced  by  M. of A. ORTIZ, DenDEKKER, WEPRIN, THIELE -- Multi-Spon-
   sored by -- M. of A. CRESPO -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Transportation
 
 AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in  relation  to  mandating
   ignition interlock devices
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The vehicle and traffic law is  amended  by  adding  a  new
 section 1198-b to read as follows:
   §  1198-B.  INSTALLATION OF IGNITION INTERLOCK DEVICES. 1. EVERY MOTOR
 VEHICLE, AS DEFINED IN SECTION ONE HUNDRED TWENTY-FIVE OF THIS  CHAPTER,
 MANUFACTURED  FOR  USE IN THIS STATE ON AND AFTER DECEMBER THIRTY-FIRST,
 TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-TWO, AND EVERY SECOND HAND  MOTOR  VEHICLE  SOLD  IN
 THIS STATE ON AND AFTER DECEMBER THIRTY-FIRST, TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-THREE
 WHICH IS CAPABLE OF HAVING AN IGNITION INTERLOCK DEVICE INSTALLED, SHALL
 BE  EQUIPPED  WITH  A FUNCTIONAL IGNITION INTERLOCK DEVICE OF A TYPE AND
 SPECIFICATION AS CERTIFIED BY THE COMMISSIONER  OF  HEALTH  PURSUANT  TO
 SUBDIVISION SIX OF SECTION ELEVEN HUNDRED NINETY-EIGHT OF THIS ARTICLE.
   2.  IGNITION  INTERLOCKING  DEVICES FOR EXISTING MOTOR VEHICLES REGIS-
 TERED IN THE STATE. ANY MOTOR VEHICLE AS DEFINED IN SECTION ONE  HUNDRED
 TWENTY-FIVE  OF  THIS CHAPTER, SHALL BY DECEMBER THIRTY-FIRST, TWO THOU-
 SAND TWENTY-THREE BE RETROFITTED SO THAT ALL SUCH VEHICLES ARE  EQUIPPED
 WITH  AN  IGNITION INTERLOCKING DEVICE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PROVISIONS
 OF THIS SECTION.
   3. FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION, THE TERM  "IGNITION  INTERLOCKING
 DEVICE" SHALL MEAN ANY BLOOD ALCOHOL CONCENTRATION EQUIVALENCE MEASURING
 DEVICE  WHICH CONNECTS TO A MOTOR VEHICLE IGNITION SYSTEM AND PREVENTS A
 MOTOR VEHICLE FROM BEING STARTED WITHOUT FIRST  DETERMINING  THROUGH  AN
 ESSENTIAL  DEEP LUNG BREATH SAMPLE THAT THE OPERATOR'S EQUIVALENT BREATH
 ALCOHOL LEVEL DOES NOT EXCEED THE CALIBRATED SETTING ON SUCH DEVICE.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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