STATE OF NEW YORK
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5654
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 19, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. BARCLAY, BLANKENBUSH, DiPIETRO, PALMESANO, MANK-
TELOW, MORINELLO, GALLAHAN, LEMONDES, BRABENEC -- Multi-Sponsored by
-- M. of A. HAWLEY -- read once and referred to the Committee on
Transportation
AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to registration
fees for snowmobiles to be used on frozen bodies of water for sport
fishing or for access to hunting or trapping lands solely
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 15 to read as follows:
3 15. (a) Fees for snowmobiles to be used solely for sport fishing on a
4 frozen body of water or solely for access to hunting or trapping lands.
5 Notwithstanding any other law, rule or regulation to the contrary, fees
6 for registration of a snowmobile which is to be used solely for sport
7 fishing on a frozen body of water or solely for access to hunting or
8 trapping lands shall not include the additional fees set out in subdivi-
9 sion four-a of this section, and section 21.07 of the parks, recreation
10 and historic preservation law.
11 (b) The registration sticker for snowmobiles which are to be used
12 solely for sport fishing on a frozen body of water or solely for access
13 to hunting or trapping lands shall be of a different color than other
14 registration stickers for snowmobiles.
15 (c) A person who owns or operates a snowmobile which is registered to
16 be used solely for sport fishing on a frozen body of water or solely for
17 access to hunting or trapping lands who operates the snowmobile for
18 other purposes shall be guilty of a violation and shall be subject to a
19 fine of two hundred dollars.
20 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
21 have become a law. Effective immediately the commissioner of motor vehi-
22 cles is authorized to promulgate and/or repeal any rule or regulation
23 necessary to implement the provisions of this act on or before such
24 effective date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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