Bill Text: NY A06106 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Increases width and weight of the description specifics for an all terrain vehicle.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 12-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-04-25 - held for consideration in transportation [A06106 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A06106-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          6106

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     March 10, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. HAWLEY, BARCLAY -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Transportation

        AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation  to  increasing
          width and weight of the description specifics for an all terrain vehi-
          cle

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

     1    Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 1 of section 2281 of the vehi-
     2  cle and traffic law, as amended by chapter 319 of the laws of  1997,  is
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    (a)  "All  terrain  vehicle" or "ATV" means any self-propelled vehicle
     5  which is manufactured for sale for operation  primarily  on  off-highway
     6  trails  or  off-highway  competitions  and only incidentally operated on
     7  public highways providing that such vehicle does  not  exceed  [seventy]
     8  eighty  inches  in  width,  or  [one]  two  thousand  pounds dry weight.
     9  Provided, however, this definition shall not include a  "snowmobile"  or
    10  other  self-propelled  vehicles  manufactured for off-highway use exclu-
    11  sively designed for travel on snow or ice, steered by  skis  or  runners
    12  and  supported  in whole or in part by one or more skis, belts or cleats
    13  which utilize an endless belt tread.
    14    § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day  after  it  shall
    15  have become a law.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01976-01-1
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