Bill Text: NY S04241 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Relates to fees for registration and reregistration of an agricultural trailer.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-06-11 - SUBSTITUTED BY A5653B [S04241 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S04241-Amended.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                        4241--B
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                    March 11, 2015
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       Introduced  by  Sen. RITCHIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
         printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation --  commit-
         tee  discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recom-
         mitted to  said  committee  --  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 fees for the
         registration or reregistration of an agricultural trailer
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Schedule E of subdivision 7 of section 401 of  the  vehicle
    2  and traffic law, as amended by chapter 55 of the laws of 1992, paragraph
    3  1  as  amended  by section 9 of part G of chapter 59 of the laws of 2009
    4  and paragraph 2 as amended by chapter  642  of  the  laws  of  1998,  is
    5  amended to read as follows:
    6    E.  Schedule for agricultural trucks AND AGRICULTURAL TRAILERS. 1. For
    7  each agricultural truck AND AGRICULTURAL TRAILER, the annual fee of  two
    8  dollars  and  fifty-one cents for each five hundred pounds maximum gross
    9  weight, or fraction thereof.
   10    2. For the purposes of this schedule an "agricultural truck" shall  be
   11  a  truck  AND  AN  AGRICULTURAL TRAILER SHALL BE A TRAILER, OTHER THAN A
   12  COACH OR HOUSE TRAILER OR SEMITRAILER, owned  by  a  person  engaged  in
   13  production  by  means of (a) the planting, cultivation and harvesting of
   14  agricultural, vegetable and food products of the soil, including  horti-
   15  cultural  specialties such as nursery stock, ornamental shrubs, ornamen-
   16  tal trees and flowers, (b) the raising, feeding and care of live  stock,
   17  bees and poultry or (c) dairy farming. Such agricultural truck AND AGRI-
   18  CULTURAL  TRAILER  shall  be used only for the transportation of his own
   19  agricultural or dairy commodities or supplies or for personal  passenger
   20  use,  or use in conjunction with lumbering operations connected with but
   21  only incidental to the operation of a farm.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD08756-06-5
       S. 4241--B                          2
    1    3. A motor vehicle[,] registered as an "agricultural truck" under this
    2  schedule[,] AND A TRAILER REGISTERED AS AN "AGRICULTURAL TRAILER"  UNDER
    3  THIS  SCHEDULE  shall  be  operated  on the public highways only for the
    4  purposes set forth in paragraph two hereof.
    5    4. An agricultural truck AND AN AGRICULTURAL TRAILER may be registered
    6  or reregistered for periods of less than one calendar year upon applica-
    7  tion forms furnished by the commissioner for such purpose, and the annu-
    8  al fees as provided in this schedule shall be reduced proportionately on
    9  a monthly computation basis.
   10    S  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
   11  have become a law.