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                                   3924
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 30, 2017
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 Introduced  by  Sens. RITCHIE, AVELLA, BONACIC, GALLIVAN, 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 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 295 of the laws of 2016, 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, licensed motor vehicle repair shops and the point of
 sale of the vehicle. Motor vehicles, other than motor vehicles  manufac-
 tured  and  equipped  primarily  for  the  transportation of passengers,
 trailers and semitrailers, to be operated 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 landfill; or (c) for the purpose of  trans-
 porting  the  motor  vehicle,  trailer or semitrailer to a motor vehicle
 repair shop licensed pursuant to this chapter for the repair or  adjust-
 ment  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  secure-
 ment,  brake  systems,  steering  components and/or coupling devices, or
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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 after it has been placed out-of-service;  (ii)  on  any  limited  access
 highway;  and  (iii)  during the period of one hour before sunset to one
 hour after sunrise; or (d) for the purpose  of  transporting  the  motor
 vehicle,  trailer or semitrailer, at the time of first receipt, from its
 point of sale to a farm, may be registered as provided in this  subdivi-
 sion.  Every  owner  of  such  vehicles may cause to be filed by mail or
 otherwise, with the commissioner or with any agent of the  commissioner,
 an  application  for  registration  of  such  vehicle,  addressed to the
 commissioner, and on a blank to be furnished  by  the  commissioner  for
 that  purpose, containing the information required by subdivision one of
 this section and  such  other  information  as  the  commissioner  shall
 require.  The commissioner or agent shall make such investigation, as he
 or she shall determine necessary, and if satisfied that the  vehicle  is
 to  be  operated exclusively as provided in this subdivision shall, upon
 the payment of a fee of one dollar, assign to such vehicle a distinctive
 number and issue and deliver to the applicant a set of number plates and
 a certificate of registration in such form  as  the  commissioner  shall
 prescribe,  indicating the extent to which the vehicle registered may be
 operated on the public highways and such vehicle may be operated only as
 so indicated. For the purposes of this subdivision, the terms "farm" and
 "crops, livestock or livestock products," shall have the same meaning as
 "land used in agricultural production" and "crops, livestock  and  live-
 stock  products,"  respectively, as defined in section three hundred one
 of the agriculture and markets law, except that farmers with an  average
 gross  sales  value  of at least one thousand dollars per year of crops,
 livestock, and livestock products shall be eligible to register vehicles
 pursuant to this subdivision.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.