Bill Text: NY A09522 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Provides that farm machinery, implements of husbandry and other machinery including road construction and maintenance machinery which are designed to operate at a speed greater than twenty-five mph but less than forty mph shall display a slow-moving vehicle emblem as well as a speed identification symbol.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-06-18 - substituted by s6746a [A09522 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-A09522-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 9522--A IN ASSEMBLY January 19, 2018 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. WOERNER, BRINDISI, BRABENEC, BLANKENBUSH, FINCH -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. HAWLEY, MAGEE -- 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 slow moving vehicles The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 36 of section 375 of the vehicle and traffic 2 law, as added by chapter 322 of the laws of 1969, paragraph (b) as 3 amended by chapter 350 of the laws of 2008, is amended to read as 4 follows: 5 36. (a) (i) The slow-moving vehicle emblem as developed by the Ameri- 6 can Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers shall be recognized 7 as the official state slow moving vehicle emblem. The commissioner of 8 motor vehicles shall adopt standards and specifications for design, 9 creation and use, in conformance with those recommendations of the Amer- 10 ican Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers for the size, 11 design and mounting of said slow-moving vehicle emblem. 12 (ii) The commissioner shall adopt standards and specifications for 13 design, creation and use, in conformance with those recommendations of 14 the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers standard 15 which meets the criteria of the American National Standards 16 Institute/American Society for Testing and Materials S584 for the size, 17 design and mounting of a speed identification symbol. A speed identifi- 18 cation symbol shall indicate the maximum speed in miles per hour at 19 which the unit of farm machinery, implement of husbandry and other 20 machinery including road construction and maintenance machinery to which 21 it is mounted is designed by its manufacturer to operate. 22 (b) (i) Farm machinery and implements of husbandry and other machinery 23 including road construction and maintenance machinery designed to oper- 24 ate at twenty-five miles per hour or less, traveling on a public highway 25 during day or night, whether self-propelled or used in combination, EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD13206-06-8A. 9522--A 2 1 shall each separately display a slow-moving vehicle emblem as specified 2 in paragraph (a) of this subdivision. 3 (ii) (A) Farm machinery and implements of husbandry and other machin- 4 ery including road construction and maintenance machinery designed to 5 operate at a speed greater than twenty-five miles per hour but less than 6 forty miles per hour, traveling on a public highway during day or night, 7 whether self-propelled or used in combination, shall each separately 8 display a slow-moving vehicle emblem and a speed identification symbol 9 as specified in paragraph (a) of this subdivision. 10 (B) If an agricultural tractor that is designed by its manufacturer to 11 operate at a speed greater than twenty-five miles per hour but not 12 greater than forty miles per hour is being operated on a street or high- 13 way at a speed greater than twenty-five miles per hour but less than 14 forty miles per hour and is towing, pulling, or otherwise drawing a unit 15 of farm machinery, the unit of farm machinery shall display a slow-mov- 16 ing vehicle emblem and a speed identification symbol that is the same as 17 the speed identification symbol that is displayed on the agricultural 18 tractor. 19 (C) When an agricultural tractor is designed by its manufacturer to 20 operate at a speed greater than twenty-five miles per hour but less than 21 forty miles per hour is being operated on a street or highway at a speed 22 greater than twenty-five miles per hour, the operator shall possess some 23 documentation published or provided by the manufacturer indicating the 24 maximum speed in miles per hour at which the manufacturer designed the 25 agricultural tractor to operate. 26 (c) The use of such emblem and symbol shall be in addition to any 27 lighting devices, flags or other equipment required by law. Such emblem 28 and symbol shall be used only on farm machinery and implements of 29 husbandry on road construction and maintenance machinery, and on such 30 other vehicles, machinery and equipment as may be specified in regu- 31 lations issued by the commissioner. All use shall be in accordance with 32 such regulations. Use of such emblem as a clearance marker or on 33 stationary objects on the highways is prohibited. 34 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after 35 it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amend- 36 ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen- 37 tation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and 38 completed on or before such effective date.
