STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8634

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 10, 2022
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        Introduced  by M. of A. LUPARDO -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Transportation

        AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law,  in  relation  to  allowing
          semitrailers to register as an agriculture trailer

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

     1    Section 1. Paragraph 2 of schedule E of subdivision 7 of  section  401
     2  of the vehicle and traffic law, as amended by chapter 527 of the laws of
     3  2015, is amended to read as follows:
     4    2.  For the purposes of this schedule an "agricultural truck" shall be
     5  a truck and an agricultural trailer shall be a trailer  or  semitrailer,
     6  other  than a coach or house trailer [or semitrailer], owned by a person
     7  engaged in production by means of  (a)  the  planting,  cultivation  and
     8  harvesting  of  agricultural,  vegetable  and food products of the soil,
     9  including horticultural specialties such as  nursery  stock,  ornamental
    10  shrubs,  ornamental trees and flowers, (b) the raising, feeding and care
    11  of live stock, bees and poultry or (c) dairy farming. Such  agricultural
    12  truck and agricultural trailer shall be used only for the transportation
    13  of his own agricultural or dairy commodities or supplies or for personal
    14  passenger use, or use in conjunction with lumbering operations connected
    15  with but only incidental to the operation of a farm.
    16    § 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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