Senate Bill S2823

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Relates to the registered weight of tow trucks

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Current 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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2023-S2823 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §401-b, V & T L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2015-2016: S5823
2017-2018: S5260
2019-2020: S460
2021-2022: S4297

2023-S2823 (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.

2023-S2823 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S2823 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   2823
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 24, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  LANZA  -- 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  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.
                                                            LBD02319-01-3

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