Bill Text: NY S05262 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to the registration of certain farm vehicles.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2012-02-07 - referred to transportation [S05262 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-S05262-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         5262
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                      May 3, 2011
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       Introduced  by  Sen. RITCHIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
         printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation
       AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic  law,  in  relation  to  certain
         registrations of vehicles
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Subdivision 13 of section 401 of the  vehicle  and  traffic
    2  law,  as  amended by chapter 203 of the laws of 2002, is amended to read
    3  as follows:
    4    13. Registration of motor vehicles, trailers and semitrailers operated
    5  upon public highways connecting portions of a farm or  farms,  municipal
    6  sanitary  landfills and licensed motor vehicle repair shops. Motor vehi-
    7  cles, other than motor vehicles manufactured and equipped primarily  for
    8  the transportation of passengers, trailers and semitrailers, to be oper-
    9  ated  by  any person, upon a public highway for the purpose of traveling
   10  by the most direct route, but in no event further than twenty-five miles
   11  one-way from a point on the farm as designated by the vehicle owner [and
   12  set forth in an attachment to the  vehicle  registration],  (a)  between
   13  fields,  buildings,  and  facilities  managed  or  operated as part of a
   14  single farm enterprise in connection with  the  production,  harvesting,
   15  processing  or  marketing on that farm of crops, livestock, or livestock
   16  products produced on that farm; or (b) for the purpose  of  transporting
   17  materials  from a farm to the nearest available municipal sanitary land-
   18  fill; or (c) for the purpose of transporting the motor vehicle,  trailer
   19  or  semitrailer to a motor vehicle repair shop licensed pursuant to this
   20  chapter for the repair or adjustment  of  equipment  provided  that,  in
   21  addition  to  the  route  restrictions set forth in this subdivision, no
   22  such transport shall be authorized (i) if such vehicle  has  an  out-of-
   23  service  defect  relating  to  load  securement, brake systems, steering
   24  components and/or coupling devices, or after it has been placed  out-of-
   25  service; (ii) on any limited access highway; and (iii) during the period
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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    1  of  one  hour before sunset to one hour after sunrise, may be registered
    2  as provided in this subdivision. Every owner of such vehicles may  cause
    3  to  be  filed  by  mail  or otherwise, with the commissioner or with any
    4  agent of the commissioner, an application for registration of such vehi-
    5  cle,  addressed  to  the commissioner, and on a blank to be furnished by
    6  the commissioner for that purpose, containing the  information  required
    7  by  subdivision  one  of  this section and such other information as the
    8  commissioner shall require. The commissioner or agent  shall  make  such
    9  investigation,  as he or she shall determine necessary, and if satisfied
   10  that the vehicle is to be  operated  exclusively  as  provided  in  this
   11  subdivision  shall,  upon  the payment of a fee of one dollar, assign to
   12  such vehicle a distinctive number and issue and deliver to the applicant
   13  a set of number plates and a certificate of registration in such form as
   14  the commissioner shall prescribe, indicating the  extent  to  which  the
   15  vehicle registered may be operated on the public highways and such vehi-
   16  cle  may  be  operated  only  as  so indicated. For the purposes of this
   17  subdivision,  the  terms  "farm"  and  "crops,  livestock  or  livestock
   18  products,"  shall  have  the  same meaning as "land used in agricultural
   19  production" and "crops, livestock and livestock products," respectively,
   20  as defined in section three hundred one of the agriculture  and  markets
   21  law,  except  that farmers with an average gross sales value of at least
   22  one thousand  dollars  per  year  of  crops,  livestock,  and  livestock
   23  products  shall be eligible to register vehicles pursuant to this subdi-
   24  vision.
   25    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.