What's happening
This bill requires liability insurance policies for vehicles to also cover any agricultural trailers they tow.
Why it matters
Reduces insurance gaps for farmers by ensuring that agricultural trailers, when towed, are automatically covered under the towing vehicle’s liability insurance—potentially avoiding costly out-of-pocket expenses in case of accidents.
Simplifies compliance for agricultural operations by eliminating the need for separate insurance policies for trailers, streamlining paperwork and administrative burdens.
Provides clearer legal protection for both farmers and other drivers, as liability coverage for towed agricultural trailers will be explicit, reducing disputes and uncertainty after incidents.
May impact insurance premiums or policy terms for vehicle owners who regularly tow agricultural trailers, as insurers adjust to the expanded scope of required coverage.
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Insure Farm Trailers Automatically
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- Referred to transportation
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STATE OF NEW YORK
3137
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 28, 2019
Introduced by M. of A. GUNTHER -- read once and referred to the Committee on Transportation
AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to agricultural trailers being covered under the towing vehicles liability insurance
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Subdivision (i) of section 345 of the vehicle and traffic law is amended by adding a new paragraph 4 to read as follows:
(4) The policy shall cover any agricultural trailer, as defined in schedule E of subdivision seven of section four hundred one of this chapter, being moved by a motor vehicle covered under such policy.
§ 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall have become a law; provided that the commissioner of motor vehicles is authorized to promulgate any rules and regulations necessary to implement this act on or before its effective date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD01474-01-9
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