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Assembly Bill A8017

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Increases the weight limits for vehicles powered primarily by electric battery power and other fuels

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2025-A8017 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S8067
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §385, V & T L

2025-A8017 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides that a vehicle or a combination of vehicles operated by an engine fueled primarily by means of natural gas, propane gas, or hydrogen or powered primarily by means of electric battery power may exceed certain weight limits by up to two thousand pounds.

2025-A8017 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8017
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              April 22, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  MAGNARELLI  -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on Transportation
 
 AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation  to  increasing
   weight limits for vehicles powered primarily by electric battery power
   and other fuels
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 385 of the vehicle and traffic law  is  amended  by
 adding a new subdivision 13-a to read as follows:
   13-A.  A  VEHICLE  OR  COMBINATION  OF  VEHICLES OPERATED BY AN ENGINE
 FUELED PRIMARILY BY MEANS OF NATURAL GAS, PROPANE GAS,  OR  HYDROGEN  OR
 POWERED  PRIMARILY  BY  MEANS  OF  ELECTRIC BATTERY POWER MAY EXCEED THE
 WEIGHT LIMITATIONS PROVIDED FOR IN SUBDIVISIONS SEVEN, EIGHT, NINE, TEN,
 ELEVEN AND TWELVE OF THIS SECTION BY UP TO TWO THOUSAND POUNDS.  NOTHING
 IN  THIS SUBDIVISION SHALL ALLOW A VEHICLE TO EXCEED ANY POSTED CAPACITY
 ON A HIGHWAY OR STRUCTURE AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION  FOURTEEN  OF  THIS
 SECTION.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD11665-01-5

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