Bill Text: NY A08634 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Allows semitrailers to register as an agriculture trailer.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-4)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-10 - referred to transportation [A08634 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-A08634-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 8634 IN ASSEMBLY January 10, 2022 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. LUPARDO -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Transportation AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to allowing semitrailers to register as an agriculture trailer The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Paragraph 2 of schedule E of subdivision 7 of section 401 2 of the vehicle and traffic law, as amended by chapter 527 of the laws of 3 2015, is amended to read as follows: 4 2. For the purposes of this schedule an "agricultural truck" shall be 5 a truck and an agricultural trailer shall be a trailer or semitrailer, 6 other than a coach or house trailer [or semitrailer], owned by a person 7 engaged in production by means of (a) the planting, cultivation and 8 harvesting of agricultural, vegetable and food products of the soil, 9 including horticultural specialties such as nursery stock, ornamental 10 shrubs, ornamental trees and flowers, (b) the raising, feeding and care 11 of live stock, bees and poultry or (c) dairy farming. Such agricultural 12 truck and agricultural trailer shall be used only for the transportation 13 of his own agricultural or dairy commodities or supplies or for personal 14 passenger use, or use in conjunction with lumbering operations connected 15 with but only incidental to the operation of a farm. 16 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD08327-01-1