S1680 • 2025

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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Sponsor: Rachel May
Last action: 2026-06-05
Official status: In Senate Committee
Effective date: Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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

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

What This Bill Does

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

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Bill History

2026-06-05 Senate
COMMITTED TO RULES
2026-05-21 Senate
ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
2026-05-20 Senate
2ND REPORT CAL.
2026-05-19 Senate
1ST REPORT CAL.1262
2026-01-07 Senate
REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION
2025-01-13 Senate
REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION

Official Summary Text

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

Current Bill Text

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S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          1680

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                                    I N  S E N A T E

                                    January 13, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  MAY  --  read  twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed 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:

     1    Section  1.  Section  303 of the vehicle and traffic law is amended by
     2  adding a new subdivision (c-1) to read as follows:
     3    (C-1) EACH OFFICIAL INSPECTION STATION SHALL PROMINENTLY DISPLAY IN AN
     4  AREA OF THE STATION WHERE THE ORDERLY TRANSACTION OF  BUSINESS  OF  SUCH
     5  STATION  OCCURS  THE FOLLOWING NOTICE IN CONSPICUOUS AND LEGIBLE TWENTY-
     6  FOUR POINT TYPE ON AN EIGHT AND ONE-HALF INCHES BY ELEVEN INCHES SIGN OR
     7  POSTER STATING IN BOLD PRINT THE FOLLOWING: "THIS INSPECTION STATION  IS
     8  NOT  AUTHORIZED  TO  INSPECT ALTERED MOTOR VEHICLES (STRETCH LIMOUSINES)
     9  UNLESS THE REGISTRANT PRESENTS A STATE DOT EXEMPTION  LETTER.  OTHERWISE
    10  SUCH VEHICLES SHALL REPORT TO THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION."
    11    §  2.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
    12  have become a law.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02090-01-5