Allows for a fee reduction for the registration of vintage snowmobiles; prescribes the use of a different color registration sticker for vintage snowmobiles; defines vintage snowmobiles; creates a violation for misuse of a vintage snowmobile registration.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5450
2013-2014 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 27, 2013
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Introduced by M. of A. BUTLER -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Transportation
AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to the regis-
tration of vintage snowmobiles
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 2222 of the vehicle and traffic law is amended by
2 adding a new subdivision 4-b to read as follows:
3 4-b. (a) Fees for vintage snowmobiles. Notwithstanding any other law,
4 rule or regulation to the contrary, fees for registration of a vintage
5 snowmobile which is owned and operated as an exhibition piece or collec-
6 tor's item, and is used for participation in club activities, exhibits,
7 tours, parades, occasional transportation and similar uses, but not used
8 for general snowmobiling purposes, shall be as follows (i) ten dollars
9 annually if the registrant is a member of an organized club as set forth
10 in subdivision four-a of this section, and (ii) twenty dollars annually
11 if the registrant is not a member of such a club; provided that the
12 registrant of a vintage snowmobile shall not be subject to the addi-
13 tional fees set out in subdivision four-a of this section, and section
14 21.07 of the parks, recreation and historic preservation law.
15 (b) The registration sticker for vintage snowmobiles which shall be
16 used only for vintage snowmobiles shall be of a different color than
17 other registration stickers for snowmobiles. Such registration sticker
18 shall not be required to be affixed to the snowmobile, but shall be
19 required to be readily available to the operator and presented on demand
20 by a law enforcement officer.
21 (c) For purposes of this subdivision, a vintage snowmobile shall mean
22 any snowmobile manufactured thirty or more years prior to the current
23 calendar year, and any other model, year and type snowmobile which has
24 unique characteristics and which is determined by the commissioner to be
25 of historical, classic or exhibition value.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 (d) A person who owns or operates a snowmobile which is registered as
2 a vintage snowmobile and such snowmobile is not a vintage snowmobile as
3 defined in paragraph (c) of this subdivision shall be guilty of a
4 violation and shall be subject to a fine of two hundred dollars.
5 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
6 have become a law, provided that the commissioner of motor vehicles is
7 immediately authorized and directed to promulgate and/or repeal any
8 rules and regulations necessary to implement the provisions of this act
9 on its effective date.
