STATE OF NEW YORK
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5857--A
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
May 15, 2019
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Introduced by Sen. GRIFFO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation -- recom-
mitted to the Committee on Transportation in accordance with Senate
Rule 6, sec. 8 -- 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 allowing
snowmobiles and all-terrain vehicles to be registered as farm vehicles
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 2222 of the vehicle and traffic law is amended by
2 adding a new subdivision 15 to read as follows:
3 15. Registration of snowmobiles and all-terrain vehicles to be used as
4 farm vehicles. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the
5 contrary, a snowmobile or all-terrain vehicle may be registered as a
6 motor vehicle in accordance with the provisions of subdivision thirteen
7 of section four hundred one of this chapter, where the owner of such
8 snowmobile or all-terrain vehicle has caused to be filed by mail or
9 otherwise, with the commissioner or with any agent of the commissioner,
10 an application for registration of such snowmobile or all-terrain vehi-
11 cle, addressed to the commissioner, and on a blank form to be furnished
12 by the commissioner for that purpose, containing the information
13 required by subdivision thirteen of section four hundred one of this
14 chapter. The commissioner or agent shall make such investigation, as he
15 or she shall determine necessary, and if satisfied that the snowmobile
16 or all-terrain vehicle is to be operated exclusively as a motor vehicle
17 as provided by subdivision thirteen of section four hundred one of this
18 chapter shall, upon the payment of a fee of one dollar, assign to such
19 snowmobile or all-terrain vehicle a distinctive number and issue and
20 deliver to the applicant a set of number plates and a certificate of
21 registration in such form as the commissioner shall prescribe, indicat-
22 ing the extent to which the snowmobile or all-terrain vehicle registered
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 may be operated on the public highways and such snowmobile or all-ter-
2 rain vehicle may be operated only as so indicated.
3 § 2. Section 2229 of the vehicle and traffic law, as amended by chap-
4 ter 481 of the laws of 1990, is amended to read as follows:
5 § 2229. Snowmobile, not a motor vehicle. Notwithstanding its limited
6 use on highways, a snowmobile shall not be determined a motor vehicle
7 within the meaning of section one hundred twenty-five of this chapter or
8 any other successor statutes, except where a snowmobile is registered as
9 a farm vehicle pursuant to subdivision fifteen of section twenty-two
10 hundred twenty-two of this article.
11 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
