What's happening
This bill requires vehicle inspections to check for unsafe carbon monoxide levels and mandates educational pamphlets on carbon monoxide poisoning with driver's licenses.
Why it matters
Targets a hidden health risk. By requiring inspections for carbon monoxide (CO) levels inside vehicles, the bill addresses a potentially deadly but often overlooked hazard—CO leaks can be fatal yet are hard to detect without proper testing.
Improves vehicle safety standards. Expanding the required safety inspection checklist to include CO checks means mechanics would regularly assess exhaust systems for leaks, which could reduce incidents of poisoning from faulty or aging vehicle components.
Increases public awareness. Mandating educational pamphlets with every new or renewed driver’s license could ensure that more drivers and families are informed about the signs, symptoms, and prevention of CO poisoning, potentially saving lives through better awareness.
Could influence car maintenance behavior. The new requirements may encourage vehicle owners to pay more attention to exhaust system maintenance and take prompt action on potential leaks, leading to safer vehicles on the road.
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Test Cabs for Carbon Monoxide
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3 Co-sponsors
1 Multi-sponsor
History
- Referred to transportation
- Referred to transportation
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STATE OF NEW YORK
5204
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 7, 2019
Introduced by M. of A. WALKER -- read once and referred to the Committee on Transportation
AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to carbon monoxide poisoning
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; exhaust system for the purposes of ensuring that carbon monoxide levels in the cab of the vehicle have not reached unsafe levels in excess of 70 parts per million; 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 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. The vehicle and traffic law is amended by adding a new section 397-c to read as follows:
§ 397-c. Education against dangers of carbon monoxide poisoning. The commissioner, in consultation with the chair of the consumer protection board, shall prepare and distribute with each operator's license, whether issued or renewed, a pamphlet on the warning signs of carbon monoxide
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poisoning and the appropriate actions to be taken to prevent such accidental poisoning.
§ 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation of this act on its effective date are authorized and directed to be made and completed on or before such effective date.
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