S 6429: Authorizes police officers the ability to request a person who is driving a motor vehicle with tinted windows roll down all windows to protect such officer's health or safety; defines "tinted windows".

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6429 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE March 13, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sen. OBERACKER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to requiring persons with tinted windows lower such motor vehicle's tinted windows during a traffic stop The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The executive law is amended by adding a new section 837-y 2 to read as follows: 3 § 837-y. Tinted windows during traffic stops. Where any officer has a 4 reasonable belief that the tinted windows of a motor vehicle during a 5 traffic stop pose a potential threat to the health or safety of such 6 officer, such officer may be allowed to require the driver of the motor 7 vehicle to lower all windows of the motor vehicle until such officer 8 determines there is no danger to such officer's health or safety. For 9 the purposes of this section, the term "tinted windows" shall mean 10 windows that have a light transmittance of less than seventy percent in 11 violation of subdivision twelve-a of section three hundred seventy-five 12 of the vehicle and traffic law. 13 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD10932-01-5