Bill Text: NY A05484 | 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, fishing and trapping areas.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 9-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to transportation [A05484 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A05484-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5484

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     March 13, 2023
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        Introduced  by M. of A. MAHER -- 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, fishing
          and  trapping;  and  providing  for the repeal of such provisions upon
          expiration thereof

          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, fishing and trapping areas, without the use of
     6  any office of parks, recreation and historic preservation approved snow-
     7  mobile trails maintained by a trail maintenance entity.  Such  registra-
     8  tion  shall be comprised of a blaze orange background with black letter-
     9  ing. The fee for  the  registration  of  a  snowmobile  as  a  non-trail
    10  snowmobile  and  each renewal thereof shall be forty-five dollars, thir-
    11  ty-five dollars of which shall be deposited into  the  snowmobile  trail
    12  development  and  maintenance  fund  set  forth  in section 21.07 of the
    13  parks, recreation and historic preservation law.
    14    § 2. Section 2230 of the vehicle and traffic law is amended by  adding
    15  a new subdivision 3 to read as follows:
    16    3.  Any  person  who  violates  the provisions of subdivision two-a of
    17  section twenty-two hundred twenty-two of this article shall be guilty of
    18  a violation punishable by  a  fine  of  two  hundred  dollars  for  each
    19  offense, of which one hundred dollars of such fine shall be deposited in
    20  the  snowmobile  trail  development  and  maintenance  fund set forth in
    21  section 21.07 of the parks, recreation and historic preservation law. In
    22  addition to such fine, any second or subsequent offense within  a  three
    23  year  period shall result in the suspension of all licenses set forth in

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD09182-01-3
        A. 5484                             2

     1  section 11-0701 of the  environmental  conservation  law  held  by  such
     2  person for a period of one year.
     3    §  3.  This  act shall take effect immediately and shall expire and be
     4  deemed repealed three years after such date.