2013 New York Consolidated Laws
GBS - General Business
Article 26 - (390 - 399-ZZZ) MISCELLANEOUS
399-U - Motor vehicle alarms.

 
    §  399-u.  Motor vehicle alarms. 1. On and after the effective date of
  this section, all devices offered for sale or installed in the state  as
  alarms  for  motor  vehicles  shall be so equipped and shall function so
  that the audible portion of the alarm resets and  ceases  to  sound  not
  more than three minutes after it is activated and commences sounding. No
  audible  burglar  alarm  in  a  motor  vehicle shall be capable of being
  activated except by (a) direct physical contact with that motor  vehicle
  or (b) through the use of an individual remote activation device that is
  designed  to be used with the motor vehicle alarm system of a particular
  vehicle so long as the alarm activated by such device  ceases  to  sound
  within not more than three minutes.
    2.  A  violation of the provisions of this section shall constitute an
  offense punishable by a fine of not more than one  hundred  dollars  for
  the  first  offense  and  not  more than two hundred fifty dollars for a
  second or subsequent offense.