STATE OF NEW YORK
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5768
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
June 15, 2011
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Introduced by Sen. NOZZOLIO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to allowing
wide-based single tires on certain vehicles
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The third undesignated paragraph of paragraph (f) of subdi-
2 vision 15 of section 385 of the vehicle and traffic law, as amended by
3 section 4 of part C of chapter 59 of the laws of 2004, is amended to
4 read as follows:
5 No vehicle having a model year of two thousand six or newer shall be
6 issued a permit pursuant to this paragraph unless each axle of such
7 vehicle or combination of vehicles, other than steerable or trackable
8 axles, is equipped with two tires on each side of the axle, or equipped
9 with wide-based single tires on each side of the axle, any air pressure
10 controls for lift axles are located outside the cab of the vehicle and
11 are beyond the reach of occupants of the cab while the vehicle is in
12 motion, the weight on any grouping of two or more axles is distributed
13 such that no axle in the grouping carries less than eighty percent of
14 any other axle in the grouping and any liftable axle is steerable or
15 trackable; and, further provided, after December thirty-first, two thou-
16 sand fourteen, no permit shall be issued pursuant to this paragraph to a
17 vehicle of any model year that does not meet the requirements of this
18 provision, except that such permits may be issued prior to January
19 first, two thousand twenty to a vehicle that does not meet the require-
20 ment concerning axle grouping weight distribution, but meets all other
21 requirements of this section.
22 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD13116-01-1
