Bill Text: NY A03347 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Increases, from 8,600 pounds to 10,000 pounds, the gross vehicle weight rating of vehicles engaged in commercial towing that must be registered as tow trucks.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - referred to transportation [A03347 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A03347-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3347
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 27, 2017
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        Introduced by M. of A. CRESPO -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Transportation
        AN  ACT  to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to the regis-
          tered weight of tow trucks
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Section 401-b of the vehicle and traffic law, as added by
     2  chapter 552 of the laws of 1994, is amended to read as follows:
     3    § 401-b. Registration of tow trucks. Every motor  vehicle  engaged  in
     4  commercial  towing in this state shall be registered and identified as a
     5  tow truck, as hereinafter provided. No motor vehicle shall be registered
     6  as a tow truck unless it shall have a gross vehicle weight rating of  at
     7  least  [eighty-six  hundred] ten thousand pounds and the application for
     8  such registration is accompanied by proof of  financial  security  which
     9  shall  meet  the  requirements  of  article  six of this chapter.   Upon
    10  payment of the fees set forth in schedule  H  of  subdivision  seven  of
    11  section  four hundred one of this article, such a motor vehicle shall be
    12  issued a license plate identifying it as a "tow truck". It shall consti-
    13  tute a class A misdemeanor to engage in commercial  towing  with  a  tow
    14  truck that is not registered pursuant to this section.
    15    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    16  it shall have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD08170-01-7