STATE OF NEW YORK
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4080
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 2, 2021
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Introduced by Sen. HINCHEY -- 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 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.
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