Bill Text: NY S01951 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to the registration of certain farm vehicles.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 6-1)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2014-06-17 - referred to transportation [S01951 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-S01951-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         1951
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                      (PREFILED)
                                    January 9, 2013
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       Introduced  by  Sens. RITCHIE, BONACIC, GALLIVAN, RANZENHOFER, SEWARD --
         read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to  be  committed  to
         the Committee on Transportation
       AN  ACT  to  amend  the  vehicle and traffic law, in relation to certain
         registrations of vehicles
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Subdivision  13 of section 401 of the vehicle and traffic
    2  law, as amended by chapter 203 of the laws of 2002, is amended  to  read
    3  as follows:
    4    13. Registration of motor vehicles, trailers and semitrailers operated
    5  upon  public  highways connecting portions of a farm or farms, municipal
    6  sanitary landfills and licensed motor vehicle repair shops. Motor  vehi-
    7  cles,  other than motor vehicles manufactured and equipped primarily for
    8  the transportation of passengers, trailers and semitrailers, to be oper-
    9  ated by any person, upon a public highway for the purpose  of  traveling
   10  by the most direct route, but in no event further than twenty-five miles
   11  one-way from a point on the farm as designated by the vehicle owner [and
   12  set  forth  in  an  attachment to the vehicle registration], (a) between
   13  fields, buildings, and facilities managed  or  operated  as  part  of  a
   14  single  farm  enterprise  in connection with the production, harvesting,
   15  processing or marketing on that farm of crops, livestock,  or  livestock
   16  products  produced  on that farm; or (b) for the purpose of transporting
   17  materials from a farm to the nearest available municipal sanitary  land-
   18  fill;  or (c) for the purpose of transporting the motor vehicle, trailer
   19  or semitrailer to a motor vehicle repair shop licensed pursuant to  this
   20  chapter  for  the  repair  or  adjustment of equipment provided that, in
   21  addition to the route restrictions set forth  in  this  subdivision,  no
   22  such  transport  shall  be authorized (i) if such vehicle has an out-of-
   23  service defect relating to  load  securement,  brake  systems,  steering
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD04931-01-3
       S. 1951                             2
    1  components  and/or coupling devices, or after it has been placed out-of-
    2  service; (ii) on any limited access highway; and (iii) during the period
    3  of one hour before sunset to one hour after sunrise, may  be  registered
    4  as  provided in this subdivision. Every owner of such vehicles may cause
    5  to be filed by mail or otherwise, with  the  commissioner  or  with  any
    6  agent of the commissioner, an application for registration of such vehi-
    7  cle,  addressed  to  the commissioner, and on a blank to be furnished by
    8  the commissioner for that purpose, containing the  information  required
    9  by  subdivision  one  of  this section and such other information as the
   10  commissioner shall require. The commissioner or agent  shall  make  such
   11  investigation,  as he or she shall determine necessary, and if satisfied
   12  that the vehicle is to be  operated  exclusively  as  provided  in  this
   13  subdivision  shall,  upon  the payment of a fee of one dollar, assign to
   14  such vehicle a distinctive number and issue and deliver to the applicant
   15  a set of number plates and a certificate of registration in such form as
   16  the commissioner shall prescribe, indicating the  extent  to  which  the
   17  vehicle registered may be operated on the public highways and such vehi-
   18  cle  may  be  operated  only  as  so indicated. For the purposes of this
   19  subdivision,  the  terms  "farm"  and  "crops,  livestock  or  livestock
   20  products,"  shall  have  the  same meaning as "land used in agricultural
   21  production" and "crops, livestock and livestock products," respectively,
   22  as defined in section three hundred one of the agriculture  and  markets
   23  law,  except  that farmers with an average gross sales value of at least
   24  one thousand  dollars  per  year  of  crops,  livestock,  and  livestock
   25  products  shall be eligible to register vehicles pursuant to this subdi-
   26  vision.
   27    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.