S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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3924
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
I N S E N A T E
January 30, 2017
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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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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; 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.