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Senate Bill S4616

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Relates to the weight of certain trailers and semi-trailers driven on public highways

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2023-S4616 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §375, V & T L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: S4733
2021-2022: S4120
2025-2026: S6657

2023-S4616 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Increases the weight of certain trailers and semi-trailers driven on public highways from one thousand pounds to one thousand five hundred pounds.

2023-S4616 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S4616 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4616
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 13, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  GRIFFO -- 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  weight
   of certain trailers and semi-trailers driven on public highways
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Paragraph (c) of subdivision 1 of section 375 of the  vehi-
 cle  and  traffic law, as amended by chapter 231 of the laws of 2003, is
 amended to read as follows:
   (c) Every trailer and semi-trailer weighing  more  than  one  thousand
 FIVE  HUNDRED pounds unladen and every trailer and semi-trailer manufac-
 tured or assembled on or after January first, nineteen hundred  seventy-
 one  having a registered maximum gross weight, an actual gross weight or
 gross weight consisting of  the  unladen  weight  and  maximum  carrying
 capacity  recommended  by  the  manufacturer in excess of three thousand
 pounds also shall be equipped with adequate brakes in good working order
 if operated or drawn on the public highways of this state. Every trailer
 while being drawn upon the public highways of this  state  shall  be  so
 attached  to  the  vehicle  drawing the same as to prevent the wheels of
 such trailer from being deflected more than six inches from the path  of
 the  towing  vehicle's  wheels.  On  and  after  January first, nineteen
 hundred seventy-one every trailer, except a  semi-trailer,  while  being
 drawn  upon  the public highways of this state, shall be attached to the
 vehicle drawing the same by a device of a type approved by  the  commis-
 sioner.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD04401-01-3

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