STATE OF NEW YORK
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3728
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 29, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. LANZA -- 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 passenger
registration of pickup trucks
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 401 of the vehicle and traffic law is amended by
2 adding a new subdivision 16-a to read as follows:
3 16-a. Pickup trucks. Notwithstanding any other provision of this chap-
4 ter or other law, rule or regulation, a pickup truck which is used
5 exclusively for non-commercial purposes shall, at the option of the
6 registrant, be classified as a passenger vehicle and registered accord-
7 ingly. For purposes of this subdivision, "pickup truck" shall mean any
8 truck, regardless of weight, which has a cargo bed and side walls,
9 regardless of seating capacity within the cab. Nothing in this section
10 shall preclude the registration of a pickup truck as a passenger vehicle
11 solely because such pickup truck is driven to and from the registrant's
12 place of employment.
13 § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
14 have become law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
15 repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation of
16 this act on its effective date is authorized to be made and completed on
17 or before such effective date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD07494-01-5
