Senate Bill S1951

2013-2014 Legislative Session

Relates to the registration of certain farm vehicles

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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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2013-S1951 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A169
Current Committee:
Assembly Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง401, V & T L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2011-2012: S5262, A8351
2015-2016: S2399, A1429
2017-2018: S3924, A4485
2019-2020: S4640, A3860
2021-2022: S1534

2013-S1951 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to the registration of certain farm vehicles.

2013-S1951 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2013-S1951 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  1951

                       2013-2014 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                               (PREFILED)

                             January 9, 2013
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sens. RITCHIE, BONACIC, GALLIVAN, RANZENHOFER, SEWARD --
  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 certain
  registrations of vehicles

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1.  Subdivision  13 of section 401 of the vehicle and traffic
law, as amended by chapter 203 of the laws of 2002, is amended  to  read
as follows:
  13. Registration of motor vehicles, trailers and semitrailers operated
upon  public  highways connecting portions of a farm or farms, municipal
sanitary landfills and licensed motor vehicle repair shops. Motor  vehi-
cles,  other than motor vehicles manufactured and equipped primarily for
the transportation of passengers, trailers and semitrailers, to be oper-
ated by any person, upon a public highway for the purpose  of  traveling
by the most direct route, but in no event further than twenty-five miles
one-way from a point on the farm as designated by the vehicle owner [and
set  forth  in  an  attachment to the vehicle registration], (a) between
fields, buildings, and facilities managed  or  operated  as  part  of  a
single  farm  enterprise  in connection with the production, harvesting,
processing or marketing on that farm of crops, livestock,  or  livestock
products  produced  on that farm; or (b) for the purpose of transporting
materials from a farm to the nearest available municipal sanitary  land-
fill;  or (c) for the purpose of transporting the motor vehicle, trailer
or semitrailer to a motor vehicle repair shop licensed pursuant to  this
chapter  for  the  repair  or  adjustment of equipment provided that, in
addition to the route restrictions set forth  in  this  subdivision,  no
such  transport  shall  be authorized (i) if such vehicle has an out-of-
service defect relating to  load  securement,  brake  systems,  steering

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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