Senate Bill S3924

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Relates to the registration of certain farm vehicles

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2017-S3924 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A4485
Current Committee:
Senate Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §401, V & T L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2011-2012: S5262, A8351
2013-2014: S1951, A169
2015-2016: S2399, A1429
2019-2020: S4640, A3860
2021-2022: S1534

2017-S3924 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to the registration of certain farm vehicles.

2017-S3924 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2017-S3924 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3924
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 30, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sens. RITCHIE, AVELLA, BONACIC, GALLIVAN, RANZENHOFER --
   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 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
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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