Bill Text: NY S00762 | 2009-2010 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prohibits any truck with a trailer 48 feet or greater in length from operating upon that part of route 41 or 41-A located between route 20 and route 281 in the counties of Onondaga or Cortland, absent a local law to the contrary.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-01-06 - REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION [S00762 Detail]

Download: New_York-2009-S00762-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                          762
                              2009-2010 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                   January 15, 2009
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       Introduced  by  Sen.  DeFRANCISCO -- read twice and ordered printed, and
         when printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation
       AN ACT in relation to prohibiting  certain  trucks  with  trailers  from
         operating  upon a certain portion of public highway in the counties of
         Onondaga and Cortland
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1. Notwithstanding any other provision of general, special or
    2  local law, rule or regulation to the contrary, it shall be  unlawful  to
    3  operate  any  truck with a trailer forty-eight feet or greater in length
    4  upon that part of route 41 or route 41-A  located  in  the  counties  of
    5  Onondaga  and  Cortland between the intersection of such route and route
    6  20 to the north and route 281 to the south absent a local  law  in  each
    7  municipality  located  on  that  part  of  route  41  or route 41-A. The
    8  provisions of this act shall not prohibit the operation of such truck or
    9  trailer combination for local delivery or ingress or egress to  or  from
   10  destinations contained within municipalities.
   11    S 2. For the purposes of this act:
   12    a.  "Trailer"  shall  mean  any vehicle not propelled by its own power
   13  drawn on the public highways by a motor vehicle operated thereon, except
   14  motorcycle sidecars, vehicles being towed by  a  non-rigid  support  and
   15  vehicles  designed  and primarily used for other purposes and only occa-
   16  sionally drawn by such a motor vehicle.
   17    b. "Truck" shall mean every motor vehicle  designed,  used,  or  main-
   18  tained primarily for the transportation of property.
   19    c. "Motor vehicles" shall mean every vehicle operated or driven upon a
   20  public  highway  which  is  propelled  by  any power other than muscular
   21  power, except (i) electrically-driven mobility assistance devices  oper-
   22  ated  or  driven  by a person with a disability, (ii) vehicles which run
   23  only upon rails or tracks, or (iii) snowmobiles as defined in article 47
   24  of the vehicle and traffic law, and (iv) all terrain vehicles as defined
   25  in article 48-B of the vehicle and traffic law.
   26    S 3. 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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