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                                   4945
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               April 2, 2019
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 Introduced  by Sens. METZGER, RITCHIE -- 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 WHICH DESIGNATED POINT IS set  forth
 in an attachment to the vehicle registration, (a) between fields, build-
 ings, and facilities managed or operated as part of a single farm enter-
 prise  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 semitrail-
 er 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  components  and/or
 coupling  devices,  or  after it has been placed out-of-service; (ii) on
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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 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.
   § 2. Nothing contained in this  act  shall  be  deemed  to  invalidate
 registration  attachments required pursuant to subdivision 13 of section
 401 of the vehicle and traffic law prior to the amendment of such subdi-
 vision made by section one of this act.
   § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.