S2388-2011 Actions

• Jan 4, 2012: REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION
• Mar 1, 2011: PRINT NUMBER 2388A
• Mar 1, 2011: AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO TRANSPORTATION
• Jan 19, 2011: REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION

S2388-2011 Memo

BILL NUMBER:S2388

TITLE OF BILL:
An act
to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to the registration of
vintage snowmobiles

PURPOSE:
To exempt vintage snowmobiles that
are used for participation in club activities, exhibits, tours,
parades, occasional transportation and similar uses, but not used for
general snowmobiling purposes, from the portion of the snowmobile
registration fee that is deposited into the Snowmobile Trail
Development and Maintenance Fund.

SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS:
Section 1: Exempts vintage snowmobiles that are used only for
participation in club activities, exhibits, tours, parades,
occasional transportation and similar uses, but not used for general
snowmobiling purposes, from the portion of the snowmobile
registration fee that is deposited into the Snowmobile Trail
Development and Maintenance Fund.

Section 2: Requires that the registration stickers for vintage
snowmobiles be of a different color than other registration stickers
for snowmobiles.

Section 3: Defines a vintage snowmobile as any snowmobile manufactured
more than twenty-five years prior to the current calendar year, or
any other model, year and type snowmobile which has unique
characteristics and is determined by the commissioner to be of
historical, classic, or exhibition value.

Section 4: A person who owns or operates a snowmobile which is
registered as a vintage snowmobile and such snowmobile is not a
vintage snowmobile as defined shall be subject to a fine of $200.

EXISTING LAW:
The current snowmobile registration fee is $45 for New York State
Snowmobile Association (NYSSA) members and $100 for non-members.

JUSTIFICATION:
Requiring individuals who use their vintage snowmobiles
for participation in club activities, exhibits, tours, parades,
occasional transportation and similar uses, but do not use them for
general snowmobile purposes to pay into the Snowmobile Trail
Development and Maintenance Fund is unfair, as these individuals do
not use the trail system.

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
S.3042 of 2009-10.

FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
Unknown at this time.

EFFECTIVE DATE:
90 days after becoming a law.

S2388-2011 Text

 S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 
 
                                         2388
 2011-2012 Regular Sessions
 I N  SENATE
 January 19, 2011
 
 Introduced  by  Sens.  SEWARD,  DeFRANCISCO, LARKIN, RANZENHOFER -- 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
 tration of vintage snowmobiles
 THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

 

Section  1. 

Section 2222 of the vehicle and traffic law is amended by
 adding a new subdivision 15 to read as follows:

 15. (A) FEES FOR VINTAGE SNOWMOBILES. NOTWITHSTANDING ANY  OTHER  LAW,
 RULE  OR  REGULATION TO THE CONTRARY, FEES FOR REGISTRATION OF A VINTAGE
 SNOWMOBILE WHICH IS OWNED AND OPERATED AS AN EXHIBITION PIECE OR COLLEC
 TOR'S ITEM, AND IS USED FOR PARTICIPATION IN CLUB ACTIVITIES,  EXHIBITS,
 TOURS, PARADES, OCCASIONAL TRANSPORTATION AND SIMILAR USES, BUT NOT USED
 FOR GENERAL SNOWMOBILING PURPOSES, SHALL NOT INCLUDE THE ADDITIONAL FEES
 SET  OUT IN SUBDIVISION FOUR-A OF THIS SECTION, AND SECTION 21.07 OF THE
 PARKS, RECREATION AND HISTORIC PRESERVATION LAW.
 (B) THE REGISTRATION STICKER FOR VINTAGE SNOWMOBILES  WHICH  SHALL  BE
 USED  ONLY  FOR  VINTAGE  SNOWMOBILES SHALL BE OF A DIFFERENT COLOR THAN
 OTHER REGISTRATION STICKERS FOR SNOWMOBILES.
 (C) FOR PURPOSES OF THIS SUBDIVISION, A VINTAGE SNOWMOBILE SHALL  MEAN
 ANY  SNOWMOBILE  MANUFACTURED  MORE  THAN TWENTY-FIVE YEARS PRIOR TO THE
 CURRENT CALENDAR YEAR, AND ANY OTHER MODEL,  YEAR  AND  TYPE  SNOWMOBILE
 WHICH  HAS UNIQUE CHARACTERISTICS AND WHICH IS DETERMINED BY THE COMMIS
 SIONER TO BE OF HISTORICAL, CLASSIC OR EXHIBITION VALUE.
 (D) A PERSON WHO OWNS OR OPERATES A SNOWMOBILE WHICH IS REGISTERED  AS
 A  VINTAGE SNOWMOBILE AND SUCH SNOWMOBILE IS NOT A VINTAGE SNOWMOBILE AS
 DEFINED IN PARAGRAPH (C) OF  THIS  SUBDIVISION  SHALL  BE  GUILTY  OF  A
 VIOLATION AND SHALL BE SUBJECT TO A FINE OF TWO HUNDRED DOLLARS.
 

S  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
 have become a law, provided that the commissioner of motor  vehicles  is
 immediately  authorized  and  directed  to  promulgate and/or repeal any
 rules and regulations necessary to implement the provisions of this  act
 on its effective date.
 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD05743-01-1

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