NY State Senate Bill 2021-S1639

Senate Bill S1639

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Relates to metropolitan commuter transportation district registration fee exemptions for farm vehicles

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Jan 05, 2022	referred to transportation
Jan 14, 2021	referred to transportation

2021-S1639 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A203
Current Committee:: Senate Transportation
Law Section:: Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:: Amd §§499-a & 499-b, V & T L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:: 2013-2014: S6503, A8598
2015-2016: S2212, A811
2017-2018: S3248, A649
2019-2020: S1651, A3714
2023-2024: S1131, A2637

2021-S1639 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Removes the requirement that farm vehicles pay the metropolitan commuter transportation district (MCTD) supplemental registration fee.

2021-S1639 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                
 
BILL NUMBER: S1639

SPONSOR: SKOUFIS
 
TITLE OF BILL:

An act to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to metropolitan
commuter transportation district registration fee exemptions for farm
vehicles

 
PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:

To remove the requirement that farm vehicles pay the metropolitan commu-
ter transportation district (MCTD) supplemental registration fee.

 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

Section 1: Amends section 499-a of the vehicle and traffic law to state
that registrants of farm vehicles shall not be charged the MTA supple-
mental registration fee.

Section 2: Amends section 499-b of the vehicle and traffic law to state

that registrants of farm vehicles shall not pay the MTA supplemental
registration fee.

Section 3: Effective date.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

Currently, registrants of farm vehicles who reside in the Metropolitan
Commuter Transportation District (City of New York and the Counties of
Dutchess, Nassau, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Suffolk and Westchester)
must pay to the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles a supplemental registra-
tion fee.

According to State law, farm vehicles are only allowed to travel between
points within New York State on public highways connecting portions of a
farm or farms, municipal sanitary landfills and licensed motor vehicle
repair shops, and may travel only by the most direct route, but in no
event further than 25 miles one-way. However, despite these tight
restrictions, farm vehicles must pay the supplemental fee like any other
registered vehicle in the MCTD.

This fee places an undue burden on our downstate farmers, who by virtue
of where they live must pay the supplemental fee, though they receive no
supplemental services.

 
PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

2013-14: A8598 Referred to Corporations/S6503 Passed Senate
2015-16: A811A Referred to Corporations/S2212A Passed Senate
2017 - A649 Referred to Referred to Corporations, Authorities and
Commissions / S3248 Passed Senate
2018 - A649 Referred to Corporations, Authorities and Commissions /
S3248 Passed Senate

2020 - A3741 Referred to Corporations, Authorities And Commissions /
S1651 Referred to Transportation

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
Minimal to the state

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act takes effect immediately.

2021-S1639 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1639
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 14, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. SKOUFIS -- 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 metropolitan
   commuter transportation district registration fee exemptions for  farm
   vehicles

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 499-a of the vehicle and traffic law, as  added  by
 section  1  of  part  B of chapter 25 of the laws of 2009, is amended to
 read as follows:
   § 499-a. Metropolitan commuter  transportation  district  supplemental
 registration  fee.  Registrants  residing  in  the metropolitan commuter
 transportation district shall, upon the registration  or  renewal  of  a
 motor  vehicle, be charged a supplemental registration fee to be paid to
 the commissioner or his or her agent in accordance with  the  provisions
 of  this article. A REGISTRANT SHALL NOT BE CHARGED A FEE FOR THE REGIS-
 TRATION OR RENEWAL OF A FARM VEHICLE REGISTERED PURSUANT TO  SUBDIVISION
 THIRTEEN OF SECTION FOUR HUNDRED ONE OF THIS TITLE.
   § 2. Section 499-b of the vehicle and traffic law, as added by section
 1  of  part  B  of chapter 25 of the laws of 2009, is amended to read as
 follows:
   § 499-b. Collection of supplemental  fee.  All  registrants  of  motor
 vehicles who reside in the metropolitan commuter transportation district
 shall  pay  to  the  commissioner  or  his or her agent the supplemental
 registration fee provided for  in  this  article  upon  registration  or
 renewal  of  motor vehicles subject to registration fees pursuant to the
 following sections of this chapter: paragraph a of  subdivision  six  of
 section  four hundred one; schedules A, B, C, E, F, G, I and K of subdi-
 vision seven of section four hundred one;  paragraph  a  of  subdivision
 eight  of  section  four hundred one; paragraph a of subdivision five of
 section four hundred ten; and section four hundred  eleven-b.  A  REGIS-
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

                                                            LBD02707-01-1

 S. 1639                             2
 
 TRANT  SHALL  NOT PAY TO THE COMMISSIONER OR HIS OR HER AGENT A FEE UPON
 REGISTRATION OR RENEWAL OF FARM VEHICLES REGISTERED PURSUANT TO SUBDIVI-
 SION THIRTEEN OF SECTION FOUR HUNDRED ONE OF THIS TITLE.
   § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.

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