Assembly Bill A1992

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Increases width and weight of the description specifics for an all terrain vehicle

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Current Bill Status - In Assembly Committee

  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
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2023-A1992 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S84
Current Committee:
Assembly Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §2281, V & T L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: A9818
2021-2022: A6106, S6663

2023-A1992 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Increases width and weight of the description specifics for an all terrain vehicle.

2023-A1992 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1992
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 23, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of A. HAWLEY, BARCLAY, ANGELINO, TANNOUSIS, SMULLEN,
   BYRNES, McDONOUGH, GALLAHAN, MILLER -- read once and referred  to  the
   Committee on Transportation
 
 AN  ACT  to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to increasing
   width and weight of the description specifics for an all terrain vehi-
   cle

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 1 of section 2281 of the vehi-
 cle  and  traffic law, as amended by chapter 319 of the laws of 1997, is
 amended to read as follows:
   (a) "All terrain vehicle" or "ATV" means  any  self-propelled  vehicle
 which  is  manufactured  for sale for operation primarily on off-highway
 trails or off-highway competitions and  only  incidentally  operated  on
 public  highways  providing  that such vehicle does not exceed [seventy]
 EIGHTY inches in  width,  or  [one]  TWO  thousand  pounds  dry  weight.
 Provided,  however,  this definition shall not include a "snowmobile" or
 other self-propelled vehicles manufactured for  off-highway  use  exclu-
 sively  designed  for  travel on snow or ice, steered by skis or runners
 and supported in whole or in part by one or more skis, belts  or  cleats
 which utilize an endless belt tread.
   §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
 have become a law.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD00563-01-3

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