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New York : 2025-2026 Regular Session : BILL  A03031

Provides an exception to the requirement that no person shall permit a vehicle to stand unattended without first stopping the engine, if a remote car starter is being used while away from the vehicle to engage the vehicle's climate controls.

Sponsor: Rep Jennifer Lunsford & Rep Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn & Rep John McDonald & Rep Alfred Taylor

Bill Details

Provides an exception to the requirement that no person shall permit a vehicle to stand unattended without first stopping the engine, if a remote car starter is being used while away from the vehicle to engage the vehicle's climate controls.

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  • Thu 23 Jan 2025 referred to transportation

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          3031

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 23, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  LUNSFORD, BICHOTTE HERMELYN -- read once and
          referred to the Committee on Transportation

        AN ACT to amend the vehicle  and  traffic  law,  in  relation  to  rules
          regarding unattended motor vehicles

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Subdivision (a) of section 1210 of the vehicle and  traffic
     2  law,  as  amended by chapter 350 of the laws of 1967, is amended to read
     3  as follows:
     4    (a) No person driving or in charge of a motor vehicle shall permit  it
     5  to  stand  unattended  without  first  stopping  the engine, locking the
     6  ignition, removing the key from the vehicle, and effectively setting the
     7  brake thereon and, when standing  upon  any  grade,  turning  the  front
     8  wheels  to  the  curb  or  side  of  the highway, provided, however, the
     9  provision for removing the key from the vehicle shall  not  require  the
    10  removal  of  keys hidden from sight about the vehicle for convenience or
    11  emergency.  There shall be an exception from the requirement of stopping
    12  the engine when a person driving or in charge  of  a  motor  vehicle  is
    13  allowing  such  vehicle  to  stand  unattended if such person is using a
    14  remote car starter to turn the engine on while away from the vehicle for
    15  the purposes of engaging such vehicle's climate controls.
    16    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04383-01-5
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