New York S 1407: Requires motor vehicles sold, licensed or registered in the state to be equipped with an immobilizer

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Requires motor vehicles sold, licensed or registered in the state to be equipped with an immobilizer; establishes certain criteria such immobilizer shall meet.

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01/09/2025REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION

01/07/2026REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 1407

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 January 9, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sen. LIU -- 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
 motor vehicles sold, licensed or registered in the state to be
 equipped with an immobilizer

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

 1 Section 1. Section 375 of the vehicle and traffic law is amended by
 2 adding a new subdivision 38 to read as follows:
 3 38. Immobilizer required. (a) Any motor vehicle sold, licensed or
 4 registered in the state shall be equipped with an immobilizer.
 5 (b) Such immobilizer shall meet the following criteria:
 6 (1) such immobilizer system shall arm automatically within a period of
 7 not more than one minute after the disarming device is removed from the
 8 vehicle, if the vehicle remains in a mode of operation other than acces-
 9 sory mode or on throughout that period;
 10 (2) if the disarming device is a keypad or biometric identifier, such
 11 immobilizer system shall arm automatically within a period of not more
 12 than one minute after the motors used for the vehicle's propulsion are
 13 turned off, if the vehicle remains in a mode of operation other than
 14 accessory mode or on throughout that period;
 15 (3) such immobilizer system shall arm automatically not later than two
 16 minutes after such immobilizer system is disarmed, unless:
 17 (i) action is taken for starting one or more motors used for the vehi-
 18 cle's propulsion;
 19 (ii) disarming requires an action to be taken on the engine start
 20 control or electric motor start control, the engine stop control or
 21 electric motor stop control, or the ignition switch; or
 22 (iii) disarming occurs automatically by the presence of a disarming
 23 device and the device is inside the vehicle;

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD03868-01-5

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 1 (4) if armed, such immobilizer system shall prevent the vehicle from
 2 moving more than 9.8 feet under its own power by inhibiting the opera-
 3 tion of at least one electronic control unit and shall not have any
 4 impact on the vehicle's brake system except that it may prevent regener-
 5 ative braking and the release of the parking brake;
 6 (5) during the disarming process, a code shall be sent to the inhibit-
 7 ed electronic control unit in order to allow the vehicle to move under
 8 its own power;
 9 (6) it shall not be possible to disarm such immobilizer system by
 10 interrupting its normal operating voltage;
 11 (7) when the normal starting procedure requires that the disarming
 12 device mechanically latch into a receptacle and the device is physically
 13 separate from the ignition switch key, one or more motors used for the
 14 vehicle's propulsion shall start only after the device is removed from
 15 that receptacle;
 16 (8) (i) such immobilizer system shall have a minimum capacity of fifty
 17 thousand code variants, shall not be disarmed by a code that can disarm
 18 all other immobilizer systems of the same make and model; and
 19 (ii) shall not have the capacity to process more than five thousand
 20 codes within twenty-four hours;
 21 (9) if such immobilizer system uses rolling or encrypted codes, it may
 22 conform to the following criteria instead of the criteria set out in
 23 clause (ii) of subparagraph eight of this paragraph:
 24 (i) the probability of obtaining the correct code within twenty-four
 25 hou