Bill Text: NY A08664 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Authorizes farm vehicles to travel on a highway from the point of sale to a farm.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 3-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-06-16 - substituted by s7180a [A08664 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-A08664-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 8664--A IN ASSEMBLY January 12, 2016 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. GUNTHER, McDONOUGH -- 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 authorizing the travel on a highway of a farm vehicle from its point of sale to a farm The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 13 of section 401 of the vehicle and traffic 2 law, as amended by chapter 203 of the laws of 2002, is amended to read 3 as follows: 4 13. Registration of motor vehicles, trailers and semitrailers operated 5 upon public highways connecting portions of a farm or farms, municipal 6 sanitary landfills [and], licensed motor vehicle repair shops and the 7 point of sale of the vehicle. Motor vehicles, other than motor vehicles 8 manufactured and equipped primarily for the transportation of passen- 9 gers, trailers and semitrailers, to be operated by any person, upon a 10 public highway for the purpose of traveling by the most direct route, 11 but in no event further than twenty-five miles one-way from a point on 12 the farm as designated by the vehicle owner and set forth in an attach- 13 ment to the vehicle registration, (a) between fields, buildings, and 14 facilities managed or operated as part of a single farm enterprise in 15 connection with the production, harvesting, processing or marketing on 16 that farm of crops, livestock, or livestock products produced on that 17 farm; or (b) for the purpose of transporting materials from a farm to 18 the nearest available municipal sanitary landfill; or (c) for the 19 purpose of transporting the motor vehicle, trailer or semitrailer to a 20 motor vehicle repair shop licensed pursuant to this chapter for the 21 repair or adjustment of equipment provided that, in addition to the 22 route restrictions set forth in this subdivision, no such transport 23 shall be authorized (i) if such vehicle has an out-of-service defect 24 relating to load securement, brake systems, steering components and/or 25 coupling devices, or after it has been placed out-of-service; (ii) on 26 any limited access highway; and (iii) during the period of one hour EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD13336-03-6A. 8664--A 2 1 before sunset to one hour after sunrise; or (d) for the purpose of 2 transporting the motor vehicle, trailer or semitrailer, at the time of 3 first receipt, from its point of sale to a farm, may be registered as 4 provided in this subdivision. Every owner of such vehicles may cause to 5 be filed by mail or otherwise, with the commissioner or with any agent 6 of the commissioner, an application for registration of such vehicle, 7 addressed to the commissioner, and on a blank to be furnished by the 8 commissioner for that purpose, containing the information required by 9 subdivision one of this section and such other information as the 10 commissioner shall require. The commissioner or agent shall make such 11 investigation, as he or she shall determine necessary, and if satisfied 12 that the vehicle is to be operated exclusively as provided in this 13 subdivision shall, upon the payment of a fee of one dollar, assign to 14 such vehicle a distinctive number and issue and deliver to the applicant 15 a set of number plates and a certificate of registration in such form as 16 the commissioner shall prescribe, indicating the extent to which the 17 vehicle registered may be operated on the public highways and such vehi- 18 cle may be operated only as so indicated. For the purposes of this 19 subdivision, the terms "farm" and "crops, livestock or livestock 20 products," shall have the same meaning as "land used in agricultural 21 production" and "crops, livestock and livestock products," respectively, 22 as defined in section three hundred one of the agriculture and markets 23 law, except that farmers with an average gross sales value of at least 24 one thousand dollars per year of crops, livestock, and livestock 25 products shall be eligible to register vehicles pursuant to this subdi- 26 vision. 27 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
