Bill Text: NY S07471 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Amends the definition of all terrain vehicles to include certain vehicles of up to seventy inches long and 2400 pounds.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION [S07471 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-S07471-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 7471 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN SENATE October 25, 2021 ___________ Introduced by Sen. RITCHIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to the defi- nition of an all terrain vehicle or "ATV" The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 1 of section 2281 of the vehi- 2 cle and traffic law, as amended by chapter 319 of the laws of 1997, is 3 amended to read as follows: 4 (a) "All terrain vehicle" or "ATV" means any self-propelled vehicle 5 which is manufactured for sale for operation primarily on off-highway 6 trails or off-highway competitions and only incidentally operated on 7 public highways providing that such vehicle does not exceed seventy 8 inches in width, or [one] two thousand four hundred pounds dry weight. 9 Provided, however, this definition shall not include a "snowmobile" or 10 other self-propelled vehicles manufactured for off-highway use exclu- 11 sively designed for travel on snow or ice, steered by skis or runners 12 and supported in whole or in part by one or more skis, belts or cleats 13 which utilize an endless belt tread. 14 § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall 15 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD13421-01-1
