Bill Text: NY A10040 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Allows wide-based single tires on certain vehicles.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 14-8)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-05-02 - referred to transportation [A10040 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-A10040-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         10040
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                      May 2, 2012
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       Introduced  by  M. of A. PEOPLES-STOKES -- read once and referred to the
         Committee on Transportation
       AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law,  in  relation  to  allowing
         wide-based single tires on certain vehicles
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. The third undesignated paragraph of paragraph (f) of subdi-
    2  vision 15 of section 385 of the vehicle and traffic law, as  amended  by
    3  section  4  of  part  C of chapter 59 of the laws of 2004, is amended to
    4  read as follows:
    5    No vehicle having a model year of two thousand six or newer  shall  be
    6  issued  a  permit  pursuant  to  this paragraph unless each axle of such
    7  vehicle or combination of vehicles, other than  steerable  or  trackable
    8  axles,  is equipped with two tires on each side of the axle, OR EQUIPPED
    9  WITH WIDE-BASED SINGLE TIRES ON EACH SIDE OF THE AXLE, any air  pressure
   10  controls  for  lift axles are located outside the cab of the vehicle and
   11  are beyond the reach of occupants of the cab while  the  vehicle  is  in
   12  motion,  the  weight on any grouping of two or more axles is distributed
   13  such that no axle in the grouping carries less than  eighty  percent  of
   14  any  other  axle  in  the grouping and any liftable axle is steerable or
   15  trackable; and, further provided, after December thirty-first, two thou-
   16  sand fourteen, no permit shall be issued pursuant to this paragraph to a
   17  vehicle of any model year that does not meet the  requirements  of  this
   18  provision,  except  that  such  permits  may  be issued prior to January
   19  first, two thousand twenty to a vehicle that does not meet the  require-
   20  ment  concerning  axle grouping weight distribution, but meets all other
   21  requirements of this section.
   22    S 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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