S 1680: 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.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1680 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE 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