Assembly Bill A593

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Requires an official inspection station to post a sign or poster informing customers that it is not authorized to inspect certain vehicles

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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-A593 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §303, V & T L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: A8460
2023-2024: A2304

2025-A593 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires an official inspection station to post a sign or poster informing customers that it is not authorized to inspect an altered motor vehicle unless the registrant presents a state DOT exemption letter, otherwise, such vehicle shall report to the Department of Transportation.

2025-A593 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    593
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 8, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Transportation
 
 AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to requiring an
   official inspection station to post a sign or poster informing custom-
   ers that it is not authorized to inspect certain vehicles

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 303 of the vehicle and traffic law  is  amended  by
 adding a new subdivision (c-1) to read as follows:
   (C-1) EACH OFFICIAL INSPECTION STATION SHALL PROMINENTLY DISPLAY IN AN
 AREA  OF  THE  STATION WHERE THE ORDERLY TRANSACTION OF BUSINESS OF SUCH
 STATION OCCURS THE FOLLOWING NOTICE IN CONSPICUOUS AND  LEGIBLE  TWENTY-
 FOUR POINT TYPE ON AN EIGHT AND ONE-HALF INCHES BY ELEVEN INCHES SIGN OR
 POSTER  STATING IN BOLD PRINT THE FOLLOWING: "THIS INSPECTION STATION IS
 NOT AUTHORIZED TO INSPECT ALTERED MOTOR  VEHICLES  (STRETCH  LIMOUSINES)
 UNLESS  THE  REGISTRANT PRESENTS A STATE DOT EXEMPTION LETTER. OTHERWISE
 SUCH VEHICLES SHALL REPORT TO THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION."
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
 have become a law.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD02090-01-5

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