Bill Text: NY A09618 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Extends duration of time during which a vehicle that does not meet specified requirements may obtain a permit to cross an R-posted bridge.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2014-08-11 - signed chap.277 [A09618 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-A09618-Amended.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                        9618--A
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                     May 13, 2014
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       Introduced by M. of A. LIFTON -- 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  vehicle
         fitness for crossing R-posted bridges
         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, any air
    9  pressure controls for lift axles are located  outside  the  cab  of  the
   10  vehicle and are beyond the reach of occupants of the cab while the vehi-
   11  cle  is  in  motion,  the weight on any grouping of two or more axles is
   12  distributed such that no axle in the grouping carries less  than  eighty
   13  percent  of  any  other  axle  in  the grouping and any liftable axle is
   14  steerable or trackable; and, further provided,  after  December  thirty-
   15  first,  two  thousand  [fourteen]  NINETEEN,  no  permit shall be issued
   16  pursuant to this paragraph to a vehicle of any model year that does  not
   17  meet the requirements of this provision, except that such permits may be
   18  issued  prior  to  January  first, two thousand twenty to a vehicle that
   19  does not meet the requirement concerning axle grouping  weight  distrib-
   20  ution, but meets all other requirements of this section.
   21    S  2.  This  act shall be deemed repealed if any federal agency or any
   22  court of competent jurisdiction finally determines that this  act  would
   23  render New York state ineligible for the receipt of federal funds.
   24    S  3.  Severability.  If any clause, sentence, subdivision, paragraph,
   25  section or part of this act be adjudged by any court of competent juris-
   26  diction to be invalid, such judgment shall not affect, impair or invali-
   27  date the remainder thereof, but shall be confined in  its  operation  to
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD14413-02-4
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    1  the  clause,  sentence,  subdivision, paragraph, section or part thereof
    2  directly involved in the controversy in which such judgment  shall  have
    3  been rendered.
    4    S 4. This act shall take effect immediately.