Bill Text: NY A01401 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Provides that certified handicapped individuals may use an ATV on public land for transportation purposes only, during the hunting season.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to transportation [A01401 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A01401-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1401 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 15, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. CROUCH -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. BARCLAY, FINCH -- read once and referred to the Committee on Transportation AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to use of all terrain vehicles by certified handicapped individuals on public prop- erty The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 2403 of the vehicle and traffic 2 law, as added by chapter 402 of the laws of 1986, is amended to read as 3 follows: 4 2. Public lands other than highways. No person, except persons that 5 are certified handicapped individuals, shall operate an ATV on any 6 public lands, waters and property other than a highway, except that an 7 ATV may be operated on any such lands which have been designated and 8 posted for travel by ATVs in accordance with the provisions of section 9 twenty-four hundred five of this article. Persons certified as hand- 10 icapped individuals may utilize an ATV to enter and exit public lands 11 for the purpose of hunting, whereby such individual may be the operator 12 or a passenger of such vehicle. 13 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD03042-01-9
