Bill Text: NY A01325 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Establishes a non-trail snowmobile registration for snowmobiles which shall be used solely for the purpose of gaining access to hunting and fishing areas; requires a $25 registration fee, $15 of which shall be deposited in a snowmobile trail development and maintenance fund.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to transportation [A01325 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A01325-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1325

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 17, 2023
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. GUNTHER, LUPARDO, BARRETT, STIRPE, BARCLAY --
          read once and referred to the Committee on Transportation

        AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to  the  regis-
          tration of snowmobiles used solely for the purpose of hunting or fish-
          ing

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

     1    Section 1. Section 2222 of the vehicle and traffic law is  amended  by
     2  adding a new subdivision 2-a to read as follows:
     3    2-a.  The  commissioner  is  authorized  to register a snowmobile as a
     4  non-trail snowmobile which shall be used solely for the purpose of gain-
     5  ing access to hunting and fishing  areas.  Such  registration  shall  be
     6  comprised of a blaze orange background with black lettering. The fee for
     7  the  registration  of  a  snowmobile  as a non-trail snowmobile and each
     8  renewal thereof shall be twenty-five dollars, fifteen dollars  of  which
     9  shall be deposited into the snowmobile trail development and maintenance
    10  fund  set  forth  in section 21.07 of the parks, recreation and historic
    11  preservation law.
    12    § 2. Section 2230 of the vehicle and traffic law is amended by  adding
    13  a new subdivision 3 to read as follows:
    14    3.  Any  person  who  violates  the provisions of subdivision two-a of
    15  section twenty-two hundred twenty-two of this article shall be guilty of
    16  a violation punishable by a  fine  of  five  hundred  dollars  for  each
    17  offense,  of  which four hundred dollars of such fine shall be deposited
    18  in the snowmobile trail development and maintenance fund  set  forth  in
    19  section 21.07 of the parks, recreation and historic preservation law. In
    20  addition  to  such  fine, any second or subsequent offense within a five
    21  year period shall result in the suspension of all licenses set forth  in
    22  section  11-0701  of  the  environmental  conservation  law held by such
    23  person for a period of one year.
    24    § 3. This act shall take effect one year after it shall have become  a
    25  law.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04182-01-3