Bill Text: NY A09766 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Allows semitrailers to register as an agriculture trailer.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-02-11 - referred to transportation [A09766 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A09766-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          9766

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 11, 2020
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of A. LUPARDO, BUTTENSCHON, CAHILL, DICKENS, D'URSO,
          EPSTEIN,  GUNTHER,  JAFFEE,  JONES,  McDONALD,  SANTABARBARA,  STIRPE,
          WILLIAMS,  ZEBROWSKI, BARCLAY, BLANKENBUSH, BRABENEC, CROUCH, DeSTEFA-
          NO, GIGLIO, HAWLEY, MANKTELOW, MIKULIN, B. MILLER, MONTESANO, MORINEL-
          LO, NORRIS, PALMESANO, SCHMITT, SMULLEN, TAGUE --  Multi-Sponsored  by
          --  M.  of A.  ASHBY, BYRNES, COOK, M. G. MILLER, WALCZYK -- read once
          and referred to the Committee on Transportation

        AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law,  in  relation  to  allowing
          semitrailers to register as an agriculture trailer

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Paragraph 2 of schedule E of subdivision 7 of  section  401
     2  of the vehicle and traffic law, as amended by chapter 527 of the laws of
     3  2015, is amended to read as follows:
     4    2.  For the purposes of this schedule an "agricultural truck" shall be
     5  a truck and an agricultural trailer shall be a trailer  or  semitrailer,
     6  other  than a coach or house trailer [or semitrailer], owned by a person
     7  engaged in production by means of  (a)  the  planting,  cultivation  and
     8  harvesting  of  agricultural,  vegetable  and food products of the soil,
     9  including horticultural specialties such as  nursery  stock,  ornamental
    10  shrubs,  ornamental trees and flowers, (b) the raising, feeding and care
    11  of live stock, bees and poultry or (c) dairy farming. Such  agricultural
    12  truck and agricultural trailer shall be used only for the transportation
    13  of his own agricultural or dairy commodities or supplies or for personal
    14  passenger use, or use in conjunction with lumbering operations connected
    15  with but only incidental to the operation of a farm.
    16    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14881-01-0
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