Senate Bill S7848

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to allowing semitrailers to register as an agriculture trailer

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Transportation Committee

  • 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-S7848 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A9766
Current Committee:
Senate Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §401, V & T L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: S4080, A8634
2023-2024: S517

2019-S7848 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Allows semitrailers to register as an agriculture trailer.

2019-S7848 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2019-S7848 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7848
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 26, 2020
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. METZGER -- 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  allowing
   semitrailers to register as an agriculture trailer
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Paragraph 2 of schedule E of subdivision 7 of  section  401
 of the vehicle and traffic law, as amended by chapter 527 of the laws of
 2015, is amended to read as follows:
   2.  For the purposes of this schedule an "agricultural truck" shall be
 a truck and an agricultural trailer shall be a trailer  OR  SEMITRAILER,
 other  than a coach or house trailer [or semitrailer], owned by a person
 engaged in production by means of  (a)  the  planting,  cultivation  and
 harvesting  of  agricultural,  vegetable  and food products of the soil,
 including horticultural specialties such as  nursery  stock,  ornamental
 shrubs,  ornamental trees and flowers, (b) the raising, feeding and care
 of live stock, bees and poultry or (c) dairy farming. Such  agricultural
 truck and agricultural trailer shall be used only for the transportation
 of his own agricultural or dairy commodities or supplies or for personal
 passenger use, or use in conjunction with lumbering operations connected
 with but only incidental to the operation of a farm.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD14881-01-0

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