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                                  1951

                       2013-2014 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                               (PREFILED)

                             January 9, 2013
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Introduced  by  Sens. RITCHIE, BONACIC, GALLIVAN, RANZENHOFER, SEWARD --
  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:

  Section  1.  Subdivision  13 of section 401 of the vehicle and traffic
law, as amended by chapter 203 of the laws of 2002, is amended  to  read
as follows:
  13. Registration of motor vehicles, trailers and semitrailers operated
upon  public  highways connecting portions of a farm or farms, municipal
sanitary landfills and licensed motor vehicle repair shops. Motor  vehi-
cles,  other than motor vehicles manufactured and equipped primarily for
the transportation of passengers, trailers and semitrailers, to be oper-
ated by any person, upon a public highway for the purpose  of  traveling
by the most direct route, but in no event further than twenty-five miles
one-way from a point on the farm as designated by the vehicle owner [and
set  forth  in  an  attachment to the vehicle registration], (a) between
fields, buildings, and facilities managed  or  operated  as  part  of  a
single  farm  enterprise  in connection with the production, harvesting,
processing or marketing on that farm of crops, livestock,  or  livestock
products  produced  on that farm; or (b) for the purpose of transporting
materials from a farm to the nearest available municipal sanitary  land-
fill;  or (c) for the purpose of transporting the motor vehicle, trailer
or semitrailer to a motor vehicle repair shop licensed pursuant to  this
chapter  for  the  repair  or  adjustment of equipment provided that, in
addition to the route restrictions set forth  in  this  subdivision,  no
such  transport  shall  be authorized (i) if such vehicle has an out-of-
service defect relating to  load  securement,  brake  systems,  steering

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

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components  and/or coupling devices, or after it has been placed out-of-
service; (ii) on any limited access highway; and (iii) during the period
of one hour before sunset to one hour after sunrise, may  be  registered
as  provided in this subdivision. Every owner of such vehicles may cause
to be filed by mail or otherwise, with  the  commissioner  or  with  any
agent of the commissioner, an application for registration of such vehi-
cle,  addressed  to  the commissioner, and on a blank to be furnished by
the commissioner for that purpose, containing the  information  required
by  subdivision  one  of  this section and such other information as the
commissioner shall require. The commissioner or agent  shall  make  such
investigation,  as he or she shall determine necessary, and if satisfied
that the vehicle is to be  operated  exclusively  as  provided  in  this
subdivision  shall,  upon  the payment of a fee of one dollar, assign to
such vehicle a distinctive number and issue and deliver to the applicant
a set of number plates and a certificate of registration in such form as
the commissioner shall prescribe, indicating the  extent  to  which  the
vehicle registered may be operated on the public highways and such vehi-
cle  may  be  operated  only  as  so indicated. For the purposes of this
subdivision,  the  terms  "farm"  and  "crops,  livestock  or  livestock
products,"  shall  have  the  same meaning as "land used in agricultural
production" and "crops, livestock and livestock products," respectively,
as defined in section three hundred one of the agriculture  and  markets
law,  except  that farmers with an average gross sales value of at least
one thousand  dollars  per  year  of  crops,  livestock,  and  livestock
products  shall be eligible to register vehicles pursuant to this subdi-
vision.
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.