Assembly Bill A1440

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to inspections of mufflers and exhaust systems

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Current Bill Status - In Assembly Committee

  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2025-A1440 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S4195
Current Committee:
Assembly Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §301, V & T L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: A11140
2021-2022: A2472
2023-2024: A1740, S6718

2025-A1440 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires inspections of motor vehicle mufflers and exhaust systems to determine compliance with established maximum allowable sound levels.

2025-A1440 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1440
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              January 9, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  DINOWITZ, SIMON, R. CARROLL -- read once and
   referred to the Committee on Transportation
 
 AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation  to  inspection
   of motor vehicle muffler and exhaust systems
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subparagraph (a) of  paragraph  1  of  subdivision  (c)  of
 section 301 of the vehicle and traffic law, as amended by chapter 444 of
 the laws of 2016, is amended to read as follows:
   (a)  A  safety  inspection  shall  be made with respect to the brakes;
 steering mechanism; wheel alignment; lights, including but  not  limited
 to the lights which are designed and placed on a vehicle for the purpose
 of  illuminating  the vehicle's license plates; odometer; tire pressure;
 seat safety belts; shoulder harness safety belts; any  window  which  is
 composed  of,  covered by or treated with any material which has a light
 transmittance of less than seventy percent  pursuant  to  section  three
 hundred  seventy-five  of this title; MUFFLER OR EXHAUST SYSTEM PURSUANT
 TO SUBDIVISION THIRTY-ONE OF SECTION THREE HUNDRED SEVENTY-FIVE OF  THIS
 TITLE  AND  THE  MAXIMUM  ALLOWABLE SOUND LEVELS AS SET FORTH IN SECTION
 THREE HUNDRED EIGHTY-SIX OF THIS TITLE, PROVIDED THAT  THE  COMMISSIONER
 SHALL  PROMULGATE  REGULATIONS  REGARDING THE RELATIVE BASIS FOR TESTING
 SUCH LEVELS AT INSPECTION STATIONS and such other mechanisms and  equip-
 ment  as  shall  be  determined  by the commissioner to be necessary for
 proper and safe operations. Such inspection  shall  also  be  made  with
 respect  to  vehicle identification number. Upon inspection, the mileage
 appearing on the odometer shall be recorded upon the inspection sticker.
   § 2. This act shall take effect one year after is shall have become  a
 law.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD03241-01-5

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