S05765 Summary:
BILL NO | S05765 |
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SAME AS | SAME AS A08003-A |
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SPONSOR | ROBACH |
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COSPNSR | |
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MLTSPNSR | |
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Amd 415, V & T L | |
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Relates to mobility vehicles and new mobility vehicles; defines terms. |
S05765 Actions:
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06/02/2015 | REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
06/09/2015 | REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO RULES | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
06/16/2015 | ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.1690 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
06/16/2015 | PASSED SENATE | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
06/16/2015 | DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
06/16/2015 | referred to transportation | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
06/18/2015 | substituted for a8003a | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
06/18/2015 | ordered to third reading rules cal.689 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
06/18/2015 | passed assembly | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
06/18/2015 | returned to senate | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
11/30/2015 | DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
12/11/2015 | SIGNED CHAP.554 |
S05765 Committee Votes:
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Abbate
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Corwin
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Goodell
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Lupardo
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Paulin
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Silver
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Abinanti
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Crespo
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Gottfried
Yes
Lupinacci
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Peoples-Stokes
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Simanowitz
ER
Arroyo
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Crouch
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Graf
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Magee
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Perry
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Simon
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Aubry
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Curran
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Gunther
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Magnarelli
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Persaud
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Simotas
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Barclay
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Cusick
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Hawley
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Malliotakis
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Pichardo
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Skartados
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Barrett
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Cymbrowitz
ER
Hevesi
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Markey
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Pretlow
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Skoufis
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Barron
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Davila
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Hikind
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Mayer
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Quart
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Solages
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Benedetto
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DenDekker
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Hooper
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McDonald
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Ra
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Stec
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Bichotte
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Dilan
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Jaffee
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McDonough
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Raia
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Steck
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Blake
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Dinowitz
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Jean-Pierre
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McKevitt
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Ramos
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Stirpe
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Blankenbush
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DiPietro
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Johns
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McLaughlin
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Richardson
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Tedisco
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Borelli
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Duprey
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Joyner
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Miller
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Rivera
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Tenney
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Brabenec
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Englebright
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Kaminsky
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Montesano
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Roberts
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Thiele
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Braunstein
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Fahy
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Katz
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Morelle
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Robinson
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Titone
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Brennan
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Farrell
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Kavanagh
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Mosley
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Rodriguez
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Titus
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Brindisi
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Finch
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Kearns
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Moya
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Rosenthal
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Walker
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Bronson
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Fitzpatrick
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Kim
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Murray
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Rozic
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Walter
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Brook-Krasny
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Friend
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Kolb
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Nojay
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Russell
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Weinstein
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Buchwald
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Galef
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Lalor
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Nolan
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Ryan
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Weprin
ER
Butler
ER
Gantt
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Lavine
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Oaks
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Saladino
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Woerner
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Cahill
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Garbarino
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Lawrence
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O'Donnell
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Santabarbara
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Wozniak
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Ceretto
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Giglio
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Lentol
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Ortiz
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Schimel
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Wright
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Clark
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Gjonaj
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Lifton
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Otis
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Schimminger
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Zebrowski
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Colton
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Glick
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Linares
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Palmesano
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Seawright
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Mr. Speaker
Yes
Cook
Yes
Goldfeder
Yes
Lopez
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Palumbo
Yes
Sepulveda
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S05765 Text:
Go to top STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5765 2015-2016 Regular Sessions IN SENATE June 2, 2015 ___________ Introduced by Sen. ROBACH -- 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 mobility vehicles and new mobility vehicles The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 415 of the vehicle and traffic 2 law, as amended by chapter 7 of the laws of 2000, is amended to read as 3 follows: 4 1. Definitions. The following terms when used in this article, shall 5 be deemed to mean and include: 6 a. "Dealer" means a person engaged in the business of buying, selling 7 or dealing in motor vehicles, motorcycles or trailers, other than mobile 8 homes or manufactured homes, at retail or wholesale; except, however, 9 trailers with an unladen weight of less than one thousand pounds. For 10 the purposes of this section, a "mobile home" or "manufactured home" 11 means a mobile home or manufactured home as defined in section one 12 hundred twenty-two-c of this chapter. Any person who sells, or offers 13 for sale more than five motor vehicles, motorcycles or trailers in any 14 calendar year or who displays or permits the display of three or more 15 motor vehicles, motorcycles or trailers for sale at any one time or 16 within any one calendar month upon premises owned or controlled by him 17 or her, if such vehicles were purchased, acquired or otherwise obtained 18 by such person for the purpose of resale, will be regarded as a dealer. 19 Except as otherwise provided in subdivisions three, five, six-b, and 20 seven of this section, the term "dealer" shall include a "new motor 21 vehicle dealer" as defined by paragraph f of this subdivision and a 22 "qualified dealer" as defined in paragraph g of this subdivision. 23 b. "Person" means any natural person, firm, corporation, partnership, 24 limited liability company, entity, joint venture, association or organ- 25 ization. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD11468-01-5S. 5765 2 1 c. "Place of business" means a designated location at which the busi- 2 ness of the dealer is conducted, and, in relation to a retail dealer, 3 facilities for displaying new or used motor vehicles. 4 d. "Retail dealer" means a dealer whose business consists in whole or 5 in part of buying, selling or dealing in motor vehicles, motorcycles or 6 trailers at retail. 7 e. "Wholesale dealer" means a dealer whose business consists exclu- 8 sively of buying, selling or dealing in motor vehicles, motorcycles or 9 trailers at wholesale. 10 f. "New motor vehicle dealer" means a dealer who engages in the activ- 11 ities described in paragraph a of this subdivision if such activities 12 relate to new motor vehicles and if such dealer is party to a franchise, 13 as the terms "new motor vehicle" and "franchise" are defined in section 14 four hundred sixty-two of this title; provided, however, for purposes of 15 this definition, a new motor vehicle shall include only those motor 16 vehicles commonly classified as a passenger automobile, sport utility 17 vehicle, light truck, pickup truck, van, minivan, or suburban, with a 18 gross vehicle weight rating of ten thousand pounds or less, and shall 19 not include (i) any such vehicle which has been converted for use as a 20 tow truck, or (ii) a motor vehicle for which the current ownership docu- 21 ment is a statement of acquisition issued pursuant to section four 22 hundred twenty-nine of this title, a salvage certificate, salvage 23 certificate of title, nonrepairable certificate, or similar document 24 issued by any state or jurisdiction; or (iii) any motor vehicle commonly 25 classified as a bus, school bus, garbage truck, marine trailer, tow 26 truck, motorcycle, recreational vehicle, snowmobile, trailer, mobile 27 home or construction equipment; and provided further that: (i) a dealer 28 is a new motor vehicle dealer only with respect to those vehicles which 29 are of the same make as those which that dealer is authorized to sell at 30 that location pursuant to a valid franchise agreement; and (ii) a dealer 31 is not acting as a new motor vehicle dealer when displaying, advertis- 32 ing, storing and/or demonstrating a new mobility vehicle. 33 g. "Qualified dealer" means a dealer, other than a new motor vehicle 34 dealer or a dealer owned in whole or in part, directly or indirectly, by 35 a manufacturer, who: 36 (i) acting through a single person, but operating at one or more 37 locations of such single person, has displayed new motor vehicles for 38 sale and/or lease, and has sold and/or leased (excluding sales or leases 39 of any affiliates) a minimum of four thousand new and/or used motor 40 vehicles annually (of which at least forty percent annually were new 41 motor vehicles) at retail regardless of make or model from any one or 42 more locations of such single person within the state, in each year from 43 nineteen hundred ninety-five through and including nineteen hundred 44 ninety-eight, exclusively; or 45 (ii) has displayed new motor vehicles for sale and/or lease, and has 46 sold and/or leased (excluding sales or leases of any affiliates) a mini- 47 mum of two hundred twenty-five new and/or used motor vehicles (of which 48 at least thirty-three and one-third percent were new motor vehicles) at 49 retail, regardless of make or model, from any one or more locations 50 within the state, in the twelve-month period preceding August thirty- 51 first, nineteen hundred ninety-nine; or 52 (iii) was issued an original certificate of registration as a dealer 53 with a validation date of May, nineteen hundred ninety-nine, has 54 displayed new motor vehicles for sale and/or lease, and has sold and/or 55 leased (excluding sales or leases of any affiliates) a minimum of one 56 hundred fifty new and/or used motor vehicles (of which at least fiftyS. 5765 3 1 were new motor vehicles), regardless of make or model, from any one or 2 more locations within the state, in the period between July first, nine- 3 teen hundred ninety-nine and the effective date of [the] chapter seven 4 of the laws of two thousand [which added this subparagraph]. Notwith- 5 standing the provisions of subdivision eighteen of this section, the 6 total number of locations from which a qualified dealer eligible pursu- 7 ant to this subparagraph may operate shall not exceed that number of 8 locations operated by such qualified dealer on August thirty-first, 9 nineteen hundred ninety-nine; or 10 (iv) was issued a certificate of registration as a dealer new and used 11 with a validation date of February, nineteen hundred ninety-eight and 12 has continuously held a certificate of registration as a dealer for the 13 ten years preceding the effective date of [the] chapter seven of the 14 laws of two thousand [which added this subparagraph], and has sold 15 and/or leased (excluding sales or leases of any affiliates) a minimum of 16 two hundred new and/or used motor vehicles (of which at least twenty 17 percent were new motor vehicles) regardless of make or model, from one 18 or more locations within the state in the period between September 19 first, nineteen hundred ninety-eight through and including August thir- 20 ty-first, nineteen hundred ninety-nine. 21 h. For the purposes of this section, "new motor vehicle" means a motor 22 vehicle commonly classified as a passenger automobile, sport utility 23 vehicle, light truck, pick up truck, van, minivan or suburban which 24 meets any one or more of the following criteria: 25 (i) a motor vehicle which has not been placed in consumer use; or 26 (ii) a motor vehicle which has not been transferred to someone other 27 than a distributor, new motor vehicle dealer, or qualified dealer; or 28 (iii) a motor vehicle which has less than one thousand miles on the 29 odometer. 30 Provided, however, that such term shall not include any such vehicle 31 which has been converted for use as a tow truck or any motor vehicle 32 commonly classified as a bus, school bus, garbage truck, marine trailer, 33 tow truck, motorcycle, recreational vehicle, snowmobile, trailer, mobile 34 home or construction equipment. 35 i. "Used motor vehicle" means any vehicle not included in the defi- 36 nition of a new motor vehicle. Provided, however, that such term as used 37 in paragraph g of this subdivision shall include only those motor vehi- 38 cles commonly classified as a passenger automobile, sport utility vehi- 39 cle, light truck, pick up truck, van, minivan or suburban, with a gross 40 vehicle weight rating of ten thousand pounds or less, which (i) is not 41 deemed to be a "new motor vehicle" pursuant to paragraph h of this 42 subdivision, or (ii) has not been converted for use as a tow truck, or 43 (iii) is not commonly classified as a bus, school bus, garbage truck, 44 marine trailer, tow truck, motorcycle, recreational vehicle, snowmobile, 45 trailer, mobile home, or construction equipment. 46 j. "Lease" means to arrange for a person to enter into an agreement 47 subject to the provisions of article nine-A of the personal property 48 law, or to act as a lessor as defined in such article. 49 k. "Mobility vehicle" means a motor vehicle that is specially 50 converted and equipped to transport a person with a disability and is 51 altered or modified for such use by an alterer or final stage manufac- 52 turer pursuant to parts 567 and 568 of title 49 of the code of federal 53 regulations or a modifier pursuant to part 595 of title 49 of the code 54 of federal regulations and that:S. 5765 4 1 (i) has a chassis that contains: (A) a permanently lowered floor or 2 permanently lowered frame; or (B) a permanently raised roof and raised 3 door; and 4 (ii) contains at least one of the following: (A) an electronic or 5 mechanical wheelchair, scooter, or platform lift that enables a person 6 to enter or exit the vehicle while occupying a wheelchair or scooter; 7 (B) an electronic or mechanical wheelchair ramp that is installed as an 8 integral part or permanent attachment to the motor vehicle. 9 For the purposes of this section, the terms "alterer" and "final-stage 10 manufacturer" shall have the same meanings as such terms are defined in 11 part 567.3 of title 49 of the code of federal regulations, and the term 12 "modifier" shall mean any motor vehicle repair business that modifies a 13 motor vehicle to enable a person with a disability to operate, or ride 14 as a passenger in, the motor vehicle. 15 l. "New mobility vehicle" means a mobility vehicle that has not previ- 16 ously been titled or registered for operation by a consumer, either as a 17 mobility vehicle or as a motor vehicle. 18 § 2. Subdivision 7 of section 415 of the vehicle and traffic law is 19 amended by adding a new paragraph c-1 to read as follows: 20 c-1. Special provisions relating to mobility vehicles. (i) Any dealer, 21 other than a new motor vehicle dealer, engaged in displaying, advertis- 22 ing, storing and/or demonstrating mobility vehicles shall notify 23 prospective purchasers regarding any warranty on the mobility modifica- 24 tions and the effect of any such modifications or alterations on any 25 warranty on the underlying motor vehicle and, upon the sale of any such 26 mobility vehicle, provide the purchaser with any warranty information 27 available to any such dealer relating to the underlying motor vehicle. 28 (ii) Notwithstanding the provisions of article twelve-A of this chap- 29 ter, a dealer engaged in displaying, advertising, storing and/or demon- 30 strating mobility vehicles may, without obtaining a repair shop license 31 pursuant to such article twelve-A, perform repairs on those parts of the 32 mobility vehicle that are unique to the modifications made thereto and 33 which are not part of the original manufactured motor vehicle. 34 § 3. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after which it 35 shall have become a law.