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Senate Bill S6791

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to allowing snowmobiles and all-terrain vehicles to be registered as farm vehicles

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2025-S6791 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§2222 & 2229, V & T L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: S5857
2021-2022: S4582
2023-2024: S5737

2025-S6791 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Allows snowmobiles and all-terrain vehicles to be registered as farm vehicles upon approval by the commissioner.

2025-S6791 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S6791 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6791
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              March 24, 2025
                                ___________
 
 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  allowing
   snowmobiles and all-terrain vehicles to be registered as farm vehicles
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 2222 of the vehicle and traffic law is  amended  by
 adding a new subdivision 15 to read as follows:
   15. REGISTRATION OF SNOWMOBILES AND ALL-TERRAIN VEHICLES TO BE USED AS
 FARM  VEHICLES.    NOTWITHSTANDING  ANY  OTHER  PROVISION  OF LAW TO THE
 CONTRARY, A SNOWMOBILE OR ALL-TERRAIN VEHICLE MAY  BE  REGISTERED  AS  A
 MOTOR  VEHICLE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PROVISIONS OF SUBDIVISION THIRTEEN
 OF SECTION FOUR HUNDRED ONE OF THIS CHAPTER, WHERE  THE  OWNER  OF  SUCH
 SNOWMOBILE  OR  ALL-TERRAIN  VEHICLE  HAS  CAUSED TO BE FILED BY MAIL OR
 OTHERWISE, WITH THE COMMISSIONER OR WITH ANY AGENT OF THE  COMMISSIONER,
 AN  APPLICATION FOR REGISTRATION OF SUCH SNOWMOBILE OR ALL-TERRAIN VEHI-
 CLE, ADDRESSED TO THE COMMISSIONER, AND ON A BLANK FORM TO BE  FURNISHED
 BY  THE  COMMISSIONER  FOR  THAT  PURPOSE,  CONTAINING  THE  INFORMATION
 REQUIRED BY SUBDIVISION THIRTEEN OF SECTION FOUR  HUNDRED  ONE  OF  THIS
 CHAPTER. THE COMMISSIONER OR AGENT SHALL MAKE SUCH INVESTIGATION, AS THE
 COMMISSIONER  OR  AGENT SHALL DETERMINE NECESSARY, AND IF SATISFIED THAT
 THE SNOWMOBILE OR ALL-TERRAIN VEHICLE IS TO BE OPERATED EXCLUSIVELY AS A
 MOTOR VEHICLE AS  PROVIDED  BY  SUBDIVISION  THIRTEEN  OF  SECTION  FOUR
 HUNDRED  ONE  OF  THIS  CHAPTER  SHALL, UPON THE PAYMENT OF A FEE OF ONE
 DOLLAR, ASSIGN TO SUCH SNOWMOBILE OR ALL-TERRAIN 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 SNOWMOBILE OR  ALL-TERRAIN
 VEHICLE REGISTERED MAY BE OPERATED ON THE PUBLIC HIGHWAYS AND SUCH SNOW-
 MOBILE OR ALL-TERRAIN VEHICLE MAY BE OPERATED ONLY AS SO INDICATED.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD02061-01-5
 S. 6791                             2

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