Arizona 2024 2024 Regular Session

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                    REFERENCE TITLE: vehicle sales; emergency stop; prohibition             State of Arizona House of Representatives Fifty-sixth Legislature Second Regular Session 2024           HB 2389           Introduced by  Representatives Kolodin: Chaplik, Gillette, Jones, Parker B                    An Act   amending title 44, chapter 9, article 15, Arizona Revised Statutes, by adding section 44-1371.01; relating to motor vehicle transactions.     (TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE)   

 

 

 

REFERENCE TITLE: vehicle sales; emergency stop; prohibition
State of Arizona House of Representatives Fifty-sixth Legislature Second Regular Session 2024
HB 2389
Introduced by  Representatives Kolodin: Chaplik, Gillette, Jones, Parker B

REFERENCE TITLE: vehicle sales; emergency stop; prohibition

 

 

 

 

State of Arizona

House of Representatives

Fifty-sixth Legislature

Second Regular Session

2024

 

 

 

HB 2389

 

Introduced by 

Representatives Kolodin: Chaplik, Gillette, Jones, Parker B

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

An Act

 

amending title 44, chapter 9, article 15, Arizona Revised Statutes, by adding section 44-1371.01; relating to motor vehicle transactions.

 

 

(TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE)

 

 Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona: Section 1. Title 44, chapter 9, article 15, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended by adding section 44-1371.01, to read: START_STATUTE44-1371.01. Motor vehicle sales; emergency shut off mechanisms prohibited; definitions A. Notwithstanding any other law, a motor vehicle may not be sold or leased in this state if the motor vehicle has a mechanism that allows a person that is not the owner of the motor vehicle and that is not in possession of the motor vehicle's physical key to remotely shut off the motor vehicle. B. For the purposes of this section: 1. "mechanism": (a) includes an emergency stop mechanism, an emergency off mechanism or an emergency power off mechanism. (b) does not include a mobile application that allows the owner of the motor vehicle to deny access to the motor vehicle to another person, including a governmental entity, at any time.  2. "owner" includes a lienholder when the use of the mechanism described in subsection a of this section is a term of a contract BETWEEN the lienholder and the owner of the motor vehicle. END_STATUTE 

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:

Section 1. Title 44, chapter 9, article 15, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended by adding section 44-1371.01, to read:

START_STATUTE44-1371.01. Motor vehicle sales; emergency shut off mechanisms prohibited; definitions

A. Notwithstanding any other law, a motor vehicle may not be sold or leased in this state if the motor vehicle has a mechanism that allows a person that is not the owner of the motor vehicle and that is not in possession of the motor vehicle's physical key to remotely shut off the motor vehicle.

B. For the purposes of this section:

1. "mechanism":

(a) includes an emergency stop mechanism, an emergency off mechanism or an emergency power off mechanism.

(b) does not include a mobile application that allows the owner of the motor vehicle to deny access to the motor vehicle to another person, including a governmental entity, at any time. 

2. "owner" includes a lienholder when the use of the mechanism described in subsection a of this section is a term of a contract BETWEEN the lienholder and the owner of the motor vehicle. END_STATUTE