Bill Text: NY A05425 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Allows wide-based single tires on certain vehicles.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-04-03 - enacting clause stricken [A05425 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-A05425-Amended.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                        5425--A
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   February 26, 2013
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       Introduced  by  M. of A. PEOPLES-STOKES -- read once and referred to the
         Committee on Transportation --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended,
         ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
       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  section 4 of part C of chapter 59 of the laws of  2004,  is  amended  to
    4  read as follows:
    5    No  vehicle  having a model year of two thousand six or newer shall be
    6  issued a permit pursuant to this paragraph  unless  each  axle  of  such
    7  vehicle  or  combination  of vehicles, other than steerable or trackable
    8  axles, is equipped with two tires on each side of the axle, OR  EQUIPPED
    9  WITH  WIDE-BASED SINGLE TIRES ON EACH SIDE OF THE AXLE, any air pressure
   10  controls for lift axles are located outside the cab of the  vehicle  and
   11  are  beyond  the  reach  of occupants of the cab while the vehicle is in
   12  motion, the weight on any grouping of two or more axles  is  distributed
   13  such  that  no  axle in the grouping carries less than eighty percent of
   14  any other axle in the grouping and any liftable  axle  is  steerable  or
   15  trackable; and, further provided, after December thirty-first, two thou-
   16  sand fourteen, no permit shall be issued pursuant to this paragraph to a
   17  vehicle  of  any  model year that does not meet the requirements of this
   18  provision, except that such permits  may  be  issued  prior  to  January
   19  first,  two thousand twenty to a vehicle that does not meet the require-
   20  ment concerning axle grouping weight distribution, but meets  all  other
   21  requirements of this section.
   22    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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