STATE OF NEW YORK
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6825--A
IN SENATE
March 13, 2014
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Introduced by Sens. SEWARD, LARKIN, YOUNG -- read twice and ordered
printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Trans-
portation -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as
amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to vehicle
fitness for crossing R-posted bridges
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The third undesignated paragraph of paragraph (f) of subdi-
2 vision 15 of section 385 of the vehicle and traffic law, as amended by
3 section 4 of part C of chapter 59 of the laws of 2004, is amended to
4 read as follows:
5 No vehicle having a model year of two thousand six or newer shall be
6 issued a permit pursuant to this paragraph unless each axle of such
7 vehicle or combination of vehicles, other than steerable or trackable
8 axles, is equipped with two tires on each side of the axle, any air
9 pressure controls for lift axles are located outside the cab of the
10 vehicle and are beyond the reach of occupants of the cab while the vehi-
11 cle is in motion, the weight on any grouping of two or more axles is
12 distributed such that no axle in the grouping carries less than eighty
13 percent of any other axle in the grouping and any liftable axle is
14 steerable or trackable; and, further provided, after December thirty-
15 first, two thousand [fourteen] nineteen, no permit shall be issued
16 pursuant to this paragraph to a vehicle of any model year that does not
17 meet the requirements of this provision, except that such permits may be
18 issued prior to January first, two thousand twenty to a vehicle that
19 does not meet the requirement concerning axle grouping weight distrib-
20 ution, but meets all other requirements of this section.
21 § 2. This act shall be deemed repealed if any federal agency or any
22 court of competent jurisdiction finally determines that this act would
23 render New York state ineligible for the receipt of federal funds.
24 § 3. Severability. If any clause, sentence, subdivision, paragraph,
25 section or part of this act be adjudged by any court of competent juris-
26 diction to be invalid, such judgment shall not affect, impair or invali-
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 date the remainder thereof, but shall be confined in its operation to
2 the clause, sentence, subdivision, paragraph, section or part thereof
3 directly involved in the controversy in which such judgment shall have
4 been rendered.
5 § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.
