2010 New York Code
VAT - Vehicle & Traffic
Title 4 - REGISTRATION OF VEHICLES
Article 16 - (415 - 419) REGISTRATION OF DEALERS AND TRANSPORTERS
416-A - Bumper quality label requirements.

§ 416-a. Bumper  quality  label  requirements. 1. It shall be unlawful
  after January first, nineteen hundred ninety-three for any  manufacturer
  to  sell  or  lease  or  to offer to sell or lease in this state for the
  purpose of registration in this  state  any  new  passenger  type  motor
  vehicle  manufactured  or  assembled  after  said  date  designated as a
  nineteen hundred ninety-three or subsequent model,  except  omnibus  and
  multipurpose passenger vehicles, unless such vehicle has affixed thereto
  a  bumper  quality  label,  placed  conspicuously  upon  that  window or
  windshield where the manufacturer's suggested retail price  sticker  has
  been  posted. The commissioner shall determine the size, type legibility
  and placement of such label. Such  label  shall  include  the  following
  information: "This vehicle is equipped with a front bumper that has been
  tested  at  an impact speed of (specified by vehicle manufacturer) _____
  miles per hour and a rear bumper that has been tested at an impact speed
  of (specified by the vehicle manufacturer) _______ miles per  hour,  and
  has  sustained no damage to the vehicle's body and minimal damage to the
  bumper and attachment hardware.  Minimal  damage  to  the  bumper  means
  damage  that  can  be repaired with the use of a common repair materials
  and without replacing any parts.  The  stronger  the  bumper,  the  less
  likely the car will require repair after a low-speed collision."
    2. The impact speed required to be specified in the notice pursuant to
  subdivision  one of this section is the maximum speed of impact upon the
  bumper of the vehicle at which the vehicle sustains  no  damage  to  the
  body  and  safety  systems  and  only  minimal damage to the bumper when
  subjected to the fixed barrier  and  pendulum  impact  tests,  and  when
  subjected  to  the  corner impact test at not less than sixty percent of
  that maximum speed, conducted pursuant to the practices, procedures  and
  regulations  promulgated  under  the concurrent authority of the Federal
  Motor Vehicle Information and Cost Savings  Act  (Cost  Savings  Act)(15
  U.S.C.  1901  et seq.) and the National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety
  Act (15 U.S.C. 1381, et seq.)
    3. For purposes of this  section,  "no  damage"  means  that,  when  a
  passenger  vehicle  is  subjected to applicable impact testing practices
  and procedures, the exterior  surfaces  shall  have  no  separations  of
  surface materials, paint, polymeric coatings or other covering materials
  from  the  surface to which they are bonded, and no permanent deviations
  from their original contours thirty minutes  after  completion  of  each
  pendulum and barrier impact test, except where such damage occurs to the
  bumper  face  bar  and  the  components  and  associated  fasteners that
  directly attach the bumper face bar to the chassis frame. There shall be
  no breakage or release of fasteners or joints except as described above.
    4. Any manufacturer who violates  subdivision  one  of  this  section,
  without  just  cause,  shall be subject to a civil fine of not more than
  fifty dollars per vehicle  with  respect  to  which  there  has  been  a
  violation  of  this  section.    Civil  penalties so assessed may not be
  deducted as an expense from any tax liability due to any local or  state
  tax jurisdiction.