Bill Text: NY S05823 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Increases, from 8,600 pounds to 10,000 pounds, the gross vehicle weight rating of vehicles engaged in commercial towing that must be registered as tow trucks.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-06-17 - COMMITTED TO RULES [S05823 Detail]

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         5823
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                     June 5, 2015
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       Introduced  by  Sen.  LANZA  -- 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  the  regis-
         tered weight of tow trucks
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Section 401-b of the vehicle and traffic law, as amended by
    2  chapter 552 of the laws of 1994, is amended to read as follows:
    3    S 401-b. Registration of tow trucks. Every motor  vehicle  engaged  in
    4  commercial  towing in this state shall be registered and identified as a
    5  tow truck, as hereinafter provided. No motor vehicle shall be registered
    6  as a tow truck unless it shall have a gross vehicle weight rating of  at
    7  least  [eighty-six  hundred] TEN THOUSAND pounds and the application for
    8  such registration is accompanied by proof of  financial  security  which
    9  shall  meet  the  requirements  of  article  six of this chapter.   Upon
   10  payment of the fees set forth in schedule  H  of  subdivision  seven  of
   11  section  four hundred one of this article, such a motor vehicle shall be
   12  issued a license plate identifying it as a "tow truck". It shall consti-
   13  tute a class A misdemeanor to engage in commercial  towing  with  a  tow
   14  truck that is not registered pursuant to this section.
   15    S 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
   16  it shall become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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