Increases, from 8,600 pounds to 10,000 pounds, the gross vehicle weight rating of vehicles engaged in commercial towing that must be registered as tow trucks.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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460
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE(Prefiled)
January 9, 2019
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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 the regis-
tered weight of tow trucks
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 401-b of the vehicle and traffic law, as added by
2 chapter 552 of the laws of 1994, is amended to read as follows:
3 § 401-b. Registration of tow trucks. Every motor vehicle engaged in
4 commercial towing in this state shall be registered and identified as a
5 tow truck, as hereinafter provided. No motor vehicle shall be registered
6 as a tow truck unless it shall have a gross vehicle weight rating of at
7 least [eighty-six hundred] ten thousand pounds and the application for
8 such registration is accompanied by proof of financial security which
9 shall meet the requirements of article six of this chapter. Upon
10 payment of the fees set forth in schedule H of subdivision seven of
11 section four hundred one of this article, such a motor vehicle shall be
12 issued a license plate identifying it as a "tow truck". It shall consti-
13 tute a class A misdemeanor to engage in commercial towing with a tow
14 truck that is not registered pursuant to this section.
15 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
16 it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD05300-01-9
