Bill Text: NY A05351 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Provides that certified handicapped individuals may use an ATV on public land for transportation purposes only, during the hunting season.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 9-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to transportation [A05351 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-A05351-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5351 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY February 12, 2021 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. ANGELINO -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Transportation AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to use of all terrain vehicles by certified handicapped individuals on public prop- erty The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 2403 of the vehicle and traffic 2 law, as added by chapter 402 of the laws of 1986, is amended to read as 3 follows: 4 2. Public lands other than highways. No person, except persons that 5 are certified handicapped individuals, shall operate an ATV on any 6 public lands, waters and property other than a highway, except that an 7 ATV may be operated on any such lands which have been designated and 8 posted for travel by ATVs in accordance with the provisions of section 9 twenty-four hundred five of this article. Persons certified as hand- 10 icapped individuals may utilize an ATV to enter and exit public lands 11 for the purpose of hunting, whereby such individual may be the operator 12 or a passenger of such vehicle. 13 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD09160-01-1
