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New York v. Belton 453 U.S. 454 (1981) was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that when a police officer has made a lawful custodial arrest of the occupant of an automobile the officer may as a contemporaneous incident of that arrest search the passenger compartment of that automobile. Therefore Belton extended the so-called Chimel rule of searches incident to a lawful arrest established in Chimel v. California (1969) to vehicles.