Title VAT, Vehicle & Traffic

§ 382-a. Brake linings. 1. It shall be unlawful on and after January first, nineteen hundred sixty-six to sell, offer for sale or distribute brake linings for use on motor vehicles unless they are of a type and specification approved by the commissioner. The commissioner is here…

§ 382-b. Service brake system. Every motor vehicle of a passenger car or station wagon type, registered in this state and manufactured or assembled after June thirtieth, nineteen hundred sixty-seven, and designated as a nineteen hundred sixty-eight or later model, shall be equip…

§ 382-c. Occupant compartments. The commissioner may prescribe, by regulation, standards consistent with federal motor vehicle safety standards specifying requirements for instrument panels, seat backs, protrusions (including knobs, switches, levers, handles, bezels, and panel c…

§ 383. Safety belts and anchorage assemblies. 1. Safety belts required. No motor vehicle shall be sold or registered in this state and no motor vehicle registered in this state shall be operated in this state unless such vehicle is equipped with safety belts approved by and conf…

§ 385. Dimensions and weights of vehicles. No person shall operate or move, or cause or knowingly permit to be operated or moved on any highway or bridge thereon, in any county not wholly included within a city, any vehicle or combination of vehicles of a size or weight exceedin…

* § 385-a. Owner liability for failure of operator to comply with weight restrictions. (a) 1. (i) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the city of New York is hereby authorized to establish a weigh in motion demonstration program on the covered locations set forth in subp…

§ 386. Motor vehicle sound level limits. 1. As used in this section; a. A-weighted sound level shall mean the sound pressure level measured by the use of an instrument with the metering characteristics and A-weighting frequency response prescribed for sound level meters. b. Comb…

§ 388. Negligence in use or operation of vehicle attributable to owner. 1. Every owner of a vehicle used or operated in this state shall be liable and responsible for death or injuries to person or property resulting from negligence in the use or operation of such vehicle, in th…

§ 390. Inspection of motor vehicles and motorcycles. The superintendent of state police shall cause inspection to be made of the motor vehicles and motorcycles operating on the public highways to detect inadequacy of equipment, overloading and other violations of law governing t…

§ 391. Rates of toll on motor vehicles. Where a different rate is not otherwise prescribed or permitted by law, any person or corporation maintaining a plank road, turnpike road or bridge and authorized, or which shall be hereafter authorized, to receive tolls for the passage of…

§ 392. False statements, alteration of records or substitution in connection with any examination. Any person knowingly making a false statement in an application for any document issued by the commissioner or in any proof or statement in writing in connection with such an appli…

§ 392-a. Sale or purchase of stolen, false or fraudulent license, identification card, certificate of registration, or number plate. A person who knowingly sells or offers to sell or buys or offers to buy a false, fraudulent or stolen license, identification card, certificate of…

§ 392-b. Powers of motor vehicle investigators. Investigators of the department of motor vehicles during the course of and actual performance of their official duties shall have all the powers of peace officers, as set forth in section 2.20 of the criminal procedure law.

§ 393. Measurement and weight of vehicles; responsibility for damages. Any peace officer in this state, acting pursuant to his special duties, police officer or employee of the department of transportation, having reason to believe that any vehicle registered under the provision…

§ 393-a. Inspection of commercial motor vehicles exceeding ten thousand pounds manufacturers' gross vehicle weight rating. Any police officer having lawfully stopped a commercial motor vehicle with a manufacturers' gross vehicle weight rating in excess of ten thousand pounds for…

§ 394. Drivers' schools. 1. Definitions. As used in this section: (a) "Drivers' school" means the business of giving instruction for hire in driving motor vehicles or motorcycles. (b) "Person" includes an individual, firm, corporation, partnership, joint venture, joint adventure…

§ 395. Certain private service bureaus to be licensed. Except as otherwise provided herein, no person, firm, association or corporation shall, engage in the business of assisting for hire in securing licenses to drive motor vehicles or registrations or titles of motor vehicles, …

§ 396. Use of state and other seals and insignia on private vehicles prohibited. 1. A person who shall use any seal, device of arms, sign, lettering or insignia of the United States, or of this state or political subdivision thereof, on any vehicle not owned or used by the Unite…

§ 397. Equipping motor vehicles with radio receiving sets capable of receiving signals on the frequencies allocated for police use. A person, not a police officer or peace officer, acting pursuant to his special duties, who equips a motor vehicle with a radio receiving set capab…

§ 397-a. Radar detectors and laser detectors prohibited. 1. No radar detector or laser detector shall be used in any motor vehicle with a gross vehicle weight rating of more than eighteen thousand pounds or in any commercial vehicle with a gross vehicle weight rating of more tha…

§ 397-b. Vehicle leases that are not sales or security interests. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in the case of motor vehicles or trailers which are not vehicles or trailers leased or used primarily for personal, family, or household purposes, a transaction does not…

§ 397-c. For-hire motor vehicle safety program. The commissioner shall evaluate and approve any for-hire motor vehicle safety program created pursuant to section two thousand three hundred fifty-three of the insurance law within sixty days of the effective date of such section. …

§ 398. Title. This act shall be known as the "Motor Vehicle Repair Shop Registration Act."

§ 398-a. Statement of purpose. The purposes of this article are to further highway safety by promoting the proper and efficient repair of malfunctioning or disabled motor vehicles and to protect the consumers of this state from dishonest, deceptive and fraudulent practices in th…

§ 398-b. Definitions. 1. For the purposes of this article, the term "motor vehicle" shall mean motor vehicles as defined by section one hundred twenty-five and trailers as defined by section one hundred fifty-six of this chapter. 2. As used in this article the term "motor vehicl…

§ 398-c. Registration required; application; fees and issuance of certificate of registration. 1. Registration required. On and after the first day of November, nineteen hundred seventy-five, no person shall operate, or cause to have operated, a motor vehicle repair shop, unless…

§ 398-d. Motor vehicle repair shop requirements. 1. All work done by a motor vehicle repair shop shall be recorded on an invoice and shall describe all service work done and parts supplied. If any used parts are supplied, the invoice shall clearly state that fact. If any compone…

§ 398-e. Suspension, revocation or refusal to issue registration; civil penalty; restitution; surrender of certificate of registration. 1. Suspension, revocation or refusal to issue registration or license. The commissioner, or any person deputized by him, may deny the applicati…

§ 398-f. Hearings; review board; appeals; judicial review. 1. Hearings. (a) Upon the denial of an application for a certificate of registration, the applicant shall, upon written request made within thirty days after the applicant is notified of such denial, be entitled to a hea…

§ 398-g. Powers of the commissioner. 1. In addition to the powers and duties specified elsewhere in this article, the commissioner, upon any complaint or upon his own initiative, shall have the power to make and conduct such investigations as he deems proper to effectuate the pu…

§ 398-h. Separability clause. If any part or provision of this article or the application thereof to any person or circumstances be adjudged invalid by any court of competent jurisdiction, such judgment shall be confined in its operation to the part, provision or application dir…

§ 398-i. Unregistered operation; procedures and penalties. 1. The commissioner or any person deputized by him shall hear and determine any allegation that a person has operated a repair shop without being registered as required by subdivision one of section three hundred ninety-…

§ 398-k. Improper display of signs. 1. The holder of a repair shop registration shall remove or cause to be removed any sign which contains the registration number of the station which is visible to the public and which is required to be displayed by this article or regulations …

§ 399-a. Statement of purpose. The purposes of this article are to further highway safety by preserving the quality and efficacy of the accident prevention course programs. These purposes will be accomplished by establishing strict criteria for initial and continual course spons…

§ 399-b. Definitions. For the purposes of this article, the following terms shall have the following definitions: 1. "Sponsoring agency" shall mean an organization which owns a motor vehicle accident prevention course approved by the commissioner. 2. "Delivery agency" shall mean…

§ 399-c. Approval by the commissioner. The commissioner must approve an accident prevention course before any person attending and successfully completing such course may qualify to receive mandatory insurance reduction benefits in accordance with subsection (a) of section two t…

§ 399-d. Application for approval. 1. An agency or organization seeking approval as a motor vehicle accident prevention course sponsoring agency shall apply to the commissioner for approval. Such applications shall be made in writing and on forms prescribed by the commissioner. …

§ 399-e. Standards for course approval. 1. To be approved, a course must: (a) Have been given for at least two years by the applicant agency or organization prior to the submission of an application. * (b) Provide at least three hundred twenty minutes of instruction, with a cert…

§ 399-f. Proof of effectiveness. Proof of effectiveness shall be verifiable research documentation submitted by the applicant for sponsorship showing evidence of effectiveness comparable to that of the national safety council's defensive driving course as determined by the commi…

§ 399-g. Regulations. The commissioner shall promulgate such rules and regulations as are necessary to effectuate the provisions of this article. In addition to any requirements expressly authorized by this article, such regulations may include but not be limited to requirements…

* § 399-k. Accident prevention course internet technology pilot program. The commissioner shall establish and implement a comprehensive pilot program to review and study internet, and other technologies as approved by the commissioner, as a training method for the administration…

* § 399-l. Application. Applicants for participation in the pilot program established pursuant to this article shall be among those accident prevention course sponsoring agencies that have a course approved by the commissioner pursuant to article twelve-B of this title and which…

* § 399-m. Pilot program scope and duration. The commissioner shall conduct a pilot program designed to evaluate utilizing internet, and other technologies as approved by the commissioner, for delivering accident prevention courses for point and insurance premium reduction benef…

* § 399-n. Regulations. 1. The commissioner is authorized and directed to promulgate any rules and regulations necessary to implement the provisions of this article and to insure that internet, and other technology as approved by the commissioner, delivered accident prevention c…

* § 399-o. Report by commissioner. Within five years of the establishment and implementation of this article, the commissioner shall report to the governor, the temporary president of the senate and the speaker of the assembly on the accident prevention course internet, and othe…

* § 399-p. Pre-licensing course internet pilot program. The commissioner shall establish and implement a comprehensive pilot program to review and study the use of the internet for the administration and completion of an approved pre-licensing course as required by subparagraph …

* § 399-q. Application. An applicant for participation in the pilot program established pursuant to this article shall be an approved sponsor of an internet accident prevention course, pursuant to article twelve-C of this title, prior to the effective date of this article and wh…

* § 399-r. Regulations, fees and privacy. 1. The commissioner is authorized and directed to promulgate any rules and regulations necessary to implement the provisions of this article and to insure that internet delivered pre-licensing courses as approved by the commissioner and …

* § 399-s. Pilot program scope and duration. The commissioner shall conduct a pilot program designed to evaluate utilizing the internet for delivering an approved pre-licensing course required by subparagraph (i) of paragraph (a) of subdivision four of section five hundred two o…

* § 399-t. Report by commissioner. No later than June first, two thousand twenty-five, the commissioner shall report to the governor, the temporary president of the senate and the speaker of the assembly on the pre-licensing course internet pilot program and its results. Such re…