STATE OF NEW YORK
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4241--B
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
March 11, 2015
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Introduced by Sen. RITCHIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation -- commit-
tee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recom-
mitted to said committee -- 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 fees for the
registration or reregistration of an agricultural trailer
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Schedule E of subdivision 7 of section 401 of the vehicle
2 and traffic law, as amended by chapter 55 of the laws of 1992, paragraph
3 1 as amended by section 9 of part G of chapter 59 of the laws of 2009
4 and paragraph 2 as amended by chapter 642 of the laws of 1998, is
5 amended to read as follows:
6 E. Schedule for agricultural trucks and agricultural trailers. 1. For
7 each agricultural truck and agricultural trailer, the annual fee of two
8 dollars and fifty-one cents for each five hundred pounds maximum gross
9 weight, or fraction thereof.
10 2. For the purposes of this schedule an "agricultural truck" shall be
11 a truck and an agricultural trailer shall be a trailer, other than a
12 coach or house trailer or semitrailer, owned by a person engaged in
13 production by means of (a) the planting, cultivation and harvesting of
14 agricultural, vegetable and food products of the soil, including horti-
15 cultural specialties such as nursery stock, ornamental shrubs, ornamen-
16 tal trees and flowers, (b) the raising, feeding and care of live stock,
17 bees and poultry or (c) dairy farming. Such agricultural truck and agri-
18 cultural trailer shall be used only for the transportation of his own
19 agricultural or dairy commodities or supplies or for personal passenger
20 use, or use in conjunction with lumbering operations connected with but
21 only incidental to the operation of a farm.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 3. A motor vehicle[,] registered as an "agricultural truck" under this
2 schedule[,] and a trailer registered as an "agricultural trailer" under
3 this schedule shall be operated on the public highways only for the
4 purposes set forth in paragraph two hereof.
5 4. An agricultural truck and an agricultural trailer may be registered
6 or reregistered for periods of less than one calendar year upon applica-
7 tion forms furnished by the commissioner for such purpose, and the annu-
8 al fees as provided in this schedule shall be reduced proportionately on
9 a monthly computation basis.
10 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
11 have become a law.
