STATE OF NEW YORK
________________________________________________________________________
4616
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
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:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (c) of subdivision 1 of section 375 of the vehi-
2 cle and traffic law, as amended by chapter 231 of the laws of 2003, is
3 amended to read as follows:
4 (c) Every trailer and semi-trailer weighing more than one thousand
5 five hundred pounds unladen and every trailer and semi-trailer manufac-
6 tured or assembled on or after January first, nineteen hundred seventy-
7 one having a registered maximum gross weight, an actual gross weight or
8 gross weight consisting of the unladen weight and maximum carrying
9 capacity recommended by the manufacturer in excess of three thousand
10 pounds also shall be equipped with adequate brakes in good working order
11 if operated or drawn on the public highways of this state. Every trailer
12 while being drawn upon the public highways of this state shall be so
13 attached to the vehicle drawing the same as to prevent the wheels of
14 such trailer from being deflected more than six inches from the path of
15 the towing vehicle's wheels. On and after January first, nineteen
16 hundred seventy-one every trailer, except a semi-trailer, while being
17 drawn upon the public highways of this state, shall be attached to the
18 vehicle drawing the same by a device of a type approved by the commis-
19 sioner.
20 § 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
