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- Referred to transportation
- Print number 2388a
- Amend and recommit to transportation
- Referred to transportation
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Allows for a fee reduction for the registration of vintage snowmobiles
In Assembly Committee · Transportation · Sponsor Marc Butler
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BILL NUMBER:S2388A
Title of bill
An act to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to the registration of vintage snowmobiles
Purpose
To require vintage snowmobiles that are used for participation in club activities, exhibits, tours, parades, occasional transportation and similar uses, but not used for general snowmobiling purposes, to pay a reduced portion of the snowmobile registration fee that is deposited into the Snowmobile Trail Development and Maintenance Fund.
Summary of provisions
Section 1: Required vintage snowmobiles that are used only for participation in club activities, exhibits, tours, parades, occasional transportation and similar uses, but not used for general snowmobiling purposes, to pay ten dollars annually if the registrant is a member of an organized club, and twenty dollars annually if the registrant is not a member of an organized club. The fees are a reduced portion of the snowmobile registration fee that is deposited into the Snowmobile Trail Development and Maintenance Fund.
Section 2: Requires that the registration stickers for vintage snowmobiles be of a different color than other registration stickers for snowmobiles. The registration sticker is not required to be affixed to the snowmobile, but must be readily available to the operator and presented on demand by a law enforcement officer.
Section 3: Defines a vintage snowmobile as any snowmobile manufactured more than thirty years prior to the current calendar year, or any other model, year and type snowmobile which has unique characteristics and is determined by the commissioner to be of historical; classic, or exhibition value.
Section 4: A person who owns or operates a snowmobile which is registered as a vintage snowmobile and such snowmobile is not a vintage snowmobile as defined shall be subject to a fine of$200.
Existing law
The current snowmobile registration fee is $45 for New York State Snowmobile Association (NYSSA) members and $100 for non-members.
Justification
Requiring individuals who use their vintage snowmobiles for participation in club activities, exhibits, tours, parades, occasional transportation and similar uses, but do not use them for general snowmobile purposes to pay into the Snowmobile Trail
Development and Maintenance Fund is unfair, as these individuals do not use the trail system.
Legislative history
S.3042 of 2009-10.
Fiscal implications
Unknown at this time.
Effective date
90 days after becoming a law.
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