Bill Text: NY S04945 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Passed) 2019-11-20 - signed chap.500 [S04945 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S04945-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4945
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                      April 2, 2019
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        Introduced  by Sens. METZGER, RITCHIE -- 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 295 of the laws of 2016, 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, licensed motor vehicle repair shops and the point of
     7  sale  of the vehicle. Motor vehicles, other than motor vehicles manufac-
     8  tured and equipped  primarily  for  the  transportation  of  passengers,
     9  trailers  and  semitrailers, to be operated by any person, upon a public
    10  highway for the purpose of traveling by the most direct route, but in no
    11  event further than twenty-five miles one-way from a point on the farm as
    12  designated by the vehicle owner and which designated point is set  forth
    13  in an attachment to the vehicle registration, (a) between fields, build-
    14  ings, and facilities managed or operated as part of a single farm enter-
    15  prise  in  connection  with  the  production,  harvesting, processing or
    16  marketing on that  farm  of  crops,  livestock,  or  livestock  products
    17  produced  on that farm; or (b) for the purpose of transporting materials
    18  from a farm to the nearest available municipal sanitary landfill; or (c)
    19  for the purpose of transporting the motor vehicle, trailer or semitrail-
    20  er to a motor vehicle repair shop licensed pursuant to this chapter  for
    21  the  repair or adjustment of equipment provided that, in addition to the
    22  route restrictions set forth in  this  subdivision,  no  such  transport
    23  shall  be  authorized  (i)  if such vehicle has an out-of-service defect
    24  relating to load securement, brake systems, steering  components  and/or
    25  coupling  devices,  or  after it has been placed out-of-service; (ii) on
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  any limited access highway; and (iii) during  the  period  of  one  hour
     2  before  sunset  to  one  hour  after  sunrise; or (d) for the purpose of
     3  transporting the motor vehicle, trailer or semitrailer, at the  time  of
     4  first  receipt,  from  its point of sale to a farm, may be registered as
     5  provided in this subdivision. Every owner of such vehicles may cause  to
     6  be  filed  by mail or otherwise, with the commissioner or with any agent
     7  of the commissioner, an application for registration  of  such  vehicle,
     8  addressed  to  the  commissioner,  and on a blank to be furnished by the
     9  commissioner for that purpose, containing the  information  required  by
    10  subdivision  one  of  this  section  and  such  other information as the
    11  commissioner shall require. The commissioner or agent  shall  make  such
    12  investigation,  as he or she shall determine necessary, and if satisfied
    13  that the vehicle is to be  operated  exclusively  as  provided  in  this
    14  subdivision  shall,  upon  the payment of a fee of one dollar, assign to
    15  such vehicle a distinctive number and issue and deliver to the applicant
    16  a set of number plates and a certificate of registration in such form as
    17  the commissioner shall prescribe, indicating the  extent  to  which  the
    18  vehicle registered may be operated on the public highways and such vehi-
    19  cle  may  be  operated  only  as  so indicated. For the purposes of this
    20  subdivision,  the  terms  "farm"  and  "crops,  livestock  or  livestock
    21  products,"  shall  have  the  same meaning as "land used in agricultural
    22  production" and "crops, livestock and livestock products," respectively,
    23  as defined in section three hundred one of the agriculture  and  markets
    24  law,  except  that farmers with an average gross sales value of at least
    25  one thousand  dollars  per  year  of  crops,  livestock,  and  livestock
    26  products  shall be eligible to register vehicles pursuant to this subdi-
    27  vision.
    28    § 2. Nothing contained in this  act  shall  be  deemed  to  invalidate
    29  registration  attachments required pursuant to subdivision 13 of section
    30  401 of the vehicle and traffic law prior to the amendment of such subdi-
    31  vision made by section one of this act.
    32    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.