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                                   4485
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 2, 2017
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 Introduced  by M. of A. MAGEE, MAGNARELLI, LUPARDO, GUNTHER, DiPIETRO --
   read once and referred 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 295 of the laws of 2016, 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, licensed motor vehicle repair shops and the point of
 sale  of the vehicle. Motor vehicles, other than motor vehicles manufac-
 tured and equipped  primarily  for  the  transportation  of  passengers,
 trailers  and  semitrailers, to be operated 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 landfill; or (c) for the purpose of trans-
 porting the motor vehicle, trailer or semitrailer  to  a  motor  vehicle
 repair  shop licensed pursuant to this chapter for the repair or adjust-
 ment 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 secure-
 ment, brake systems, steering components  and/or  coupling  devices,  or
 after  it  has  been  placed  out-of-service; (ii) on any limited access
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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 highway; and (iii) during the period of one hour before  sunset  to  one
 hour  after  sunrise;  or  (d) for the purpose of transporting the motor
 vehicle, trailer or semitrailer, at the time of first receipt, from  its
 point  of sale to a farm, may be registered as provided in this subdivi-
 sion. 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  vehicle,  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 vehicle 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 live-
 stock 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 subdivision.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.