Bill Text: NY S03045 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Removes the requirement that farm vehicles pay the metropolitan commuter transportation district (MCTD) supplemental registration fee.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-23 - REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION [S03045 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-S03045-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3045

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 23, 2025
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        Introduced  by Sens. SKOUFIS, WALCZYK -- 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 metropolitan
          commuter transportation district registration fee exemptions for  farm
          vehicles

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Section 499-a of the vehicle and traffic law, as  added  by
     2  section  1  of  part  B of chapter 25 of the laws of 2009, is amended to
     3  read as follows:
     4    § 499-a. Metropolitan commuter  transportation  district  supplemental
     5  registration  fee.  Registrants  residing  in  the metropolitan commuter
     6  transportation district shall, upon the registration  or  renewal  of  a
     7  motor  vehicle, be charged a supplemental registration fee to be paid to
     8  the commissioner or [his or her] their  agent  in  accordance  with  the
     9  provisions  of this article. A registrant shall not be charged a fee for
    10  the registration or renewal of a farm  vehicle  registered  pursuant  to
    11  subdivision thirteen of section four hundred one of this title.
    12    § 2. Section 499-b of the vehicle and traffic law, as added by section
    13  1  of  part  B  of chapter 25 of the laws of 2009, is amended to read as
    14  follows:
    15    § 499-b. Collection of supplemental  fee.  All  registrants  of  motor
    16  vehicles who reside in the metropolitan commuter transportation district
    17  shall  pay  to  the commissioner or [his or her] their agent the supple-
    18  mental registration fee provided for in this article  upon  registration
    19  or  renewal  of  motor vehicles subject to registration fees pursuant to
    20  the following sections of this chapter: paragraph a of  subdivision  six
    21  of  section  four  hundred  one;  schedules A, B, C, E, F, G, I and K of
    22  subdivision seven of section four hundred one; paragraph a  of  subdivi-
    23  sion  eight of section four hundred one; paragraph a of subdivision five
    24  of section four hundred ten; and section four hundred eleven-b. A regis-

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  trant shall not pay to the commissioner or their agent a fee upon regis-
     2  tration or renewal of farm vehicles registered pursuant  to  subdivision
     3  thirteen of section four hundred one of this title.
     4    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.