What's happening
This bill requires vehicle safety inspections in New York to include checks for muffler or exhaust system noise levels and compliance with sound regulations.
Why it matters
Expands the scope of annual vehicle safety inspections to explicitly include testing for muffler and exhaust system noise. , tying inspections to specific maximum allowable sound levels detailed in state law—potentially resulting in more vehicles failing inspection if their exhausts are too loud.
Empowers the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) to set technical standards and procedures for noise testing at inspection stations. , which means the DMV will determine how noise is measured and what equipment is necessary—introducing a new regulatory framework for both inspectors and motorists.
Addresses community concerns about noise pollution from excessively loud vehicles by making noise compliance a condition for passing inspection. , which could improve quality of life in neighborhoods affected by vehicle noise but may also impact drivers who have modified their exhaust systems for sound.
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History
- Referred to transportation
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STATE OF NEW YORK
11140
IN ASSEMBLY
November 6, 2020
Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Dinowitz) -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 Assembly, 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 table II of paragraph c of subdivision three of 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 equipment 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.
LBD17458-01-0
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