New York A 10086: 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

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A10086 Summary:

BILL NOA10086 

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SAME ASSAME AS S06429

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SPONSORMaher

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COSPNSR

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MLTSPNSR

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Add §837-y, Exec L

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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".

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BILL NOA10086 

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01/30/2026referred to codes

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Go to topA10086 Text:

 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 10086

 IN ASSEMBLY

 January 30, 2026
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. MAHER -- read once and referred 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

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