Bill Text: NY A00169 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

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

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-01-08 - referred to transportation [A00169 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-A00169-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                          169
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                      (PREFILED)
                                    January 9, 2013
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       Introduced  by M. of A. MAGEE, MAGNARELLI, LUPARDO, GUNTHER -- read once
         and referred 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
   24  components and/or coupling devices, or after it has been placed  out-of-
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD04931-01-3
       A. 169                              2
    1  service; (ii) on any limited access highway; and (iii) during the period
    2  of  one  hour before sunset to one hour after sunrise, may be registered
    3  as provided in this subdivision. Every owner of such vehicles may  cause
    4  to  be  filed  by  mail  or otherwise, with the commissioner or with any
    5  agent of the commissioner, an application for registration of such vehi-
    6  cle, addressed to the commissioner, and on a blank to  be  furnished  by
    7  the  commissioner  for that purpose, containing the information required
    8  by subdivision one of this section and such  other  information  as  the
    9  commissioner  shall  require.  The commissioner or agent shall make such
   10  investigation, as he or she shall determine necessary, and if  satisfied
   11  that  the  vehicle  is  to  be  operated exclusively as provided in this
   12  subdivision shall, upon the payment of a fee of one  dollar,  assign  to
   13  such vehicle a distinctive number and issue and deliver to the applicant
   14  a set of number plates and a certificate of registration in such form as
   15  the  commissioner  shall  prescribe,  indicating the extent to which the
   16  vehicle registered may be operated on the public highways and such vehi-
   17  cle may be operated only as so  indicated.  For  the  purposes  of  this
   18  subdivision,  the  terms  "farm"  and  "crops,  livestock  or  livestock
   19  products," shall have the same meaning as  "land  used  in  agricultural
   20  production" and "crops, livestock and livestock products," respectively,
   21  as  defined  in section three hundred one of the agriculture and markets
   22  law, except that farmers with an average gross sales value of  at  least
   23  one  thousand  dollars  per  year  of  crops,  livestock,  and livestock
   24  products shall be eligible to register vehicles pursuant to this  subdi-
   25  vision.
   26    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.