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                                 7180--A
    Cal. No. 1111

                            I N  S E N A T E

                              April 6, 2016
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Introduced  by  Sen. RITCHIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
  printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation -- reported
  favorably from said committee, ordered to  first  and  second  report,
  ordered  to  a  third  reading,  passed by Senate and delivered to the
  Assembly, recalled, vote  reconsidered,  restored  to  third  reading,
  amended  and  ordered  reprinted,  retaining its place in the order of
  third reading

AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to  authorizing
  the  travel on a highway of a farm vehicle from its point of sale to a
  farm

  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  AND  THE
POINT  OF SALE OF THE VEHICLE. Motor vehicles, other than motor vehicles
manufactured and equipped primarily for the  transportation  of  passen-
gers,  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  attach-
ment  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  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

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
              

                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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shall  be  authorized  (i)  if such vehicle has an out-of-service defect
relating to load securement, brake systems, steering  components  and/or
coupling  devices,  or  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 subdivision. 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 vehi-
cle 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 livestock 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  subdi-
vision.
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.