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- Referred to corporations, authorities and commissions
- Delivered to assembly
- Passed senateVote 56–2
- Ordered to third reading cal.1442
- Committee discharged and committed to rules
- Referred to transportation
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Relates to metropolitan commuter transportation district registration fee exemptions for farm vehicles
In Assembly Committee · Transportation · Sponsor Aileen Gunther
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Sponsor's memo
BILL NUMBER:S6503
Title of bill
An act to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to metropolitan commuter transportation district registration fee exemptions for farm vehicles
Purpose
To remove the requirement that farm vehicles pay the metropolitan commu- ter transportation district (MCTD) supplemental registration fee.
Summary of provisions
Section one amends section 499-a of the vehicle and traffic law to state that registrants of farm vehicles shall not be charged the MTA supple- mental registration fee.
Section two amends section 499-b of the vehicle and traffic law to state that registrants of farm vehicles shall not pay the MTA supplemental registration fee.
Section three provides the effective date.
Justification
Currently, registrants of farm vehicles who reside in the Metropolitan Commuter Transportation District (City of New York and the Counties of Dutchess, Nassau, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Suffolk and Westchester) must pay to the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles a supple- mental regis- tration fee.
According to State law, farm vehicles are only allowed to travel between points within New York State on public highways connecting portions of a farm or farms, municipal sanitary landfills and licensed motor vehicle repair shops, and may travel only by the most direct route, but in no event further than 25 miles one-way. However, despite these tight restrictions, farm vehicles must pay the supplemental fee like any other registered vehicle in the MCTD.
The purpose of the MTA is not to provide transportation to farmers trav- eling between farms and/or landfills. This fee places an undue burden on our downstate farmers, who by virtue of where they live must pay the supplemental fee, though they receive no supplemental services.
Legislative history
New bill.
Fiscal implications
Minimal to state.
Effective date
This act shall take effect immediately.
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