Assembly Bill A5287

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to the registered weight of tow trucks

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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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2019-A5287 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S460
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §401-b, V & T L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2015-2016: A7272, S5823
2017-2018: A3347, S5260
2021-2022: S4297
2023-2024: S2823

2019-A5287 (ACTIVE) - Summary

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.

2019-A5287 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5287
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 8, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. CRESPO -- read once and referred 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:

   Section  1.  Section 401-b of the vehicle and traffic law, as added by
 chapter 552 of the laws of 1994, is amended to read as follows:
   § 401-b. Registration of tow trucks. Every motor  vehicle  engaged  in
 commercial  towing in this state shall be registered and identified as a
 tow truck, as hereinafter provided. No motor vehicle shall be registered
 as a tow truck unless it shall have a gross vehicle weight rating of  at
 least  [eighty-six  hundred] TEN THOUSAND pounds and the application for
 such registration is accompanied by proof of  financial  security  which
 shall  meet  the  requirements  of  article  six of this chapter.   Upon
 payment of the fees set forth in schedule  H  of  subdivision  seven  of
 section  four hundred one of this article, such a motor vehicle shall be
 issued a license plate identifying it as a "tow truck". It shall consti-
 tute a class A misdemeanor to engage in commercial  towing  with  a  tow
 truck that is not registered pursuant to this section.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
 it shall have become a law.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD05300-01-9

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