Bill Text: NY A03348 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Allows wide-based single tires on certain vehicles.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-06 - referred to transportation [A03348 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-A03348-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 3348 2015-2016 Regular Sessions I N A S S E M B L Y January 22, 2015 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. PEOPLES-STOKES -- read once and referred to the Committee on Transportation AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to allowing wide-based single tires on certain vehicles THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: 1 Section 1. The third undesignated paragraph of paragraph (f) of subdi- 2 vision 15 of section 385 of the vehicle and traffic law, as amended by 3 chapter 277 of the laws of 2014, is amended to read as follows: 4 No vehicle having a model year of two thousand six or newer shall be 5 issued a permit pursuant to this paragraph unless each axle of such 6 vehicle or combination of vehicles, other than steerable or trackable 7 axles, is equipped with two tires on each side of the axle, OR EQUIPPED 8 WITH WIDE-BASED SINGLE TIRES ON EACH SIDE OF THE AXLE, any air pressure 9 controls for lift axles are located outside the cab of the vehicle and 10 are beyond the reach of occupants of the cab while the vehicle is in 11 motion, the weight on any grouping of two or more axles is distributed 12 such that no axle in the grouping carries less than eighty percent of 13 any other axle in the grouping and any liftable axle is steerable or 14 trackable; and, further provided, after December thirty-first, two thou- 15 sand nineteen, no permit shall be issued pursuant to this paragraph to a 16 vehicle of any model year that does not meet the requirements of this 17 provision, except that such permits may be issued prior to January 18 first, two thousand twenty to a vehicle that does not meet the require- 19 ment concerning axle grouping weight distribution, but meets all other 20 requirements of this section. 21 S 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after 22 it shall have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD01649-01-5