NY State Senate Bill S4945

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	Assembly Actions - Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE
Nov 20, 2019	signed chap.500
Nov 08, 2019	delivered to governor
Jun 13, 2019	returned to assembly passed senate 3rd reading cal.1077 substituted for s4945
Jun 13, 2019	substituted by a3860a
Jun 04, 2019	advanced to third reading
Jun 03, 2019	2nd report cal.
May 30, 2019	1st report cal.1077
Apr 02, 2019	referred to transportation

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S4945 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A3860
Law Section:: Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:: Amd §401, V & T L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:: 2011-2012: A8351
2013-2014: A169
2015-2016: A1429
2017-2018: A4485

S4945 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to the registration of certain farm vehicles.

S4945 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

 
BILL NUMBER: S4945

SPONSOR: METZGER
 
TITLE OF BILL:  An act to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in
relation to certain registrations of vehicles

 
PURPOSE:

To amend the attachment that is currently required of farm plated vehi-
cle registration. The bill would only require the attachment to indicate
the point of origin of the farm vehicle, not every destination the vehi-
cle may travel to in the 25 mile limit.

 
SUMMARY:

Section 1 - Amends the Vehicle and Traffic Law Section 401 Subdivision
13 is to reduce the amount of information required on the registration
attachment required of farm vehicles. The attachment will now only have
to indicate the point of origin for the vehicle.

Section 2 - Clarifies that registrations submitted prior to this legis-

lation are not invalidated.

Section 3 - Effective Date

 
EXISTING LAW:

Currently, farm plated vehicles are restricted to travel within a
25-mile radius of the farm for business needs such as traveling between
fields, and necessary repair and maintenance of the farm vehicle at a
repair shop. While the 25-mile travel restriction is based on and
specific to the farm address listed on the farm vehicle's registration,
the farmer must file additional paperwork specifically addressing all
points of destination for that specific registered farm vehicle. This
information must then be kept on file with the vehicle registration as
an attachment. Each time the farmer acquires additional land or finds it
necessary to travel to an alternate destination in order to conduct
business, he/she must file another document with the Department of Motor
Vehicles.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

This bill would reduce the paperwork associated with farm plated vehi-
cles and would help alleviate a regulatory burden. Farm plates provide
New York growers with the opportunity to obtain a reduced rate for vehi-
cle and plate registration for vehicles used exclusively in agricultural
production.

With state law already strictly designating use of farm plated vehicles
to within 25 miles of the farm that the vehicle is registered to, the
additional documentation and maintenance of such paperwork with the
State is duplicative and unnecessary. By modifying this requirement to
only require the point of origin on the attachment, farmers will no
longer have to file new paperwork each time they wish to bring the vehi-
cle to a new destination on their farm.

 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

2017-2018- Passed Senate
2015-2016- Passed Senate
2013- 2014- Passed Senate
2011- 2012- Passed Senate

 
FISCAL IMPACT:

None to the State.

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect immediately.

S4945 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf


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

                                  4945

                       2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                              April 2, 2019
                               ___________

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.

                                                           LBD08316-04-9

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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.

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May 30, 2019 - Transportation committee Vote

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Jen Metzger

Current Bill Status Via A3860 - Signed by Governor

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Jun 13, 2019 - floor Vote

Floor Vote: Jun 13, 2019

May 30, 2019 - Transportation committee Vote

Transportation Committee Vote: May 30, 2019

Co-Sponsors

Patty Ritchie

Pamela Helming

James Skoufis

S4945 (ACTIVE) - Details

S4945 (ACTIVE) - Summary

S4945 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

S4945 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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