What's happening
The bill amends vehicle registration laws to remove the requirement that farm vehicle routes be set forth in an attachment to the registration.
Why it matters
Simplifies the registration process for farm vehicles. by removing the requirement to specify and attach detailed farm vehicle routes to registration paperwork, reducing administrative burden for farmers.
Provides greater flexibility for farm vehicle movement. within the 25-mile limit and for the purposes specified (between farm properties, to repair shops, to landfills, or from point of sale), making compliance easier for farm operators.
Potentially reduces paperwork errors and enforcement confusion. , since law enforcement and DMV staff no longer need to verify or maintain route attachments, focusing instead on the broader use and distance limitations specified in the law.
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Update Farm Vehicle Registration
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- Referred to transportation
- Referred to transportation
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STATE OF NEW YORK
4640
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
March 19, 2019
Introduced by Sen. RITCHIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation
AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to certain registrations of vehicles
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Subdivision 13 of section 401 of the vehicle and traffic law, as amended by chapter 295 of the laws of 2016, is amended to read as follows:
13. Registration of motor vehicles, trailers and semitrailers operated upon public highways connecting portions of a farm or farms, municipal sanitary landfills, licensed motor vehicle repair shops and the point of sale of the vehicle. Motor vehicles, other than motor vehicles manufactured and equipped primarily for the transportation of passengers, trailers and semitrailers, to be operated by any person, upon a public highway for the purpose of traveling by the most direct route, but in no event further than twenty-five miles one-way from a point on the farm as designated by the vehicle owner [and set forth in an attachment to the vehicle registration], (a) between fields, buildings, and facilities managed or operated as part of a single farm enterprise in connection with the production, harvesting, processing or marketing on that farm of crops, livestock, or livestock products produced on that farm; or (b) for the purpose of transporting materials from a farm to the nearest available municipal sanitary landfill; or (c) for the purpose of transporting the motor vehicle, trailer or semitrailer to a motor vehicle repair shop licensed pursuant to this chapter for the repair or adjustment of equipment provided that, in addition to the route restrictions set forth in this subdivision, no such transport shall be authorized (i) if such vehicle has an out-of-service defect relating to load securement, brake systems, steering components and/or coupling devices, or after it has been placed out-of-service; (ii) on any limited access
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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highway; and (iii) during the period of one hour before sunset to one hour after sunrise; or (d) for the purpose of transporting the motor vehicle, trailer or semitrailer, at the time of first receipt, from its point of sale to a farm, may be registered as provided in this subdivision. Every owner of such vehicles may cause to be filed by mail or otherwise, with the commissioner or with any agent of the commissioner, an application for registration of such vehicle, addressed to the commissioner, and on a blank to be furnished by the commissioner for that purpose, containing the information required by subdivision one of this section and such other information as the commissioner shall require. The commissioner or agent shall make such investigation, as he or she shall determine necessary, and if satisfied that the vehicle is to be operated exclusively as provided in this subdivision shall, upon the payment of a fee of one dollar, assign to such vehicle a distinctive number and issue and deliver to the applicant a set of number plates and a certificate of registration in such form as the commissioner shall prescribe, indicating the extent to which the vehicle registered may be operated on the public highways and such vehicle may be operated only as so indicated. For the purposes of this subdivision, the terms "farm" and "crops, livestock or livestock products," shall have the same meaning as "land used in agricultural production" and "crops, livestock and livestock products," respectively, as defined in section three hundred one of the agriculture and markets law, except that farmers with an average gross sales value of at least one thousand dollars per year of crops, livestock, and livestock products shall be eligible to register vehicles pursuant to this subdivision.
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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Title of bill
An act to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to certain registrations of vehicles
Purpose
To eliminate the additional attachment that is currently required of farm plated vehicle registration. This attachment must be kept with the vehicle registration at all times and creates onerous burdens on the industry.
Summary of provisions
Section 1 amends the Vehicle and Traffic Law Section 401 Subdivision 13 to remove the additional vehicle registration requirement of attaching farm vehicle certification to the farm vehicle registration and having to make such documentation available at all times.
Section 2 provides the effective date.
Justification
This bill reduces the unnecessary and cumbersome paperwork associated with farm plated vehicles and helps alleviate the regulatory burden facing the agricultural community. Farm plates provide New York produc- ers with the opportunity to obtain a reduced rate for vehicle and plate registration for vehicles used exclusively in agricultural production.
Currently, farm plated vehicles are restricted to travel within a 25-mile radius of the farm for their business needs such as traversing between fields, delivery to/from a land-fill and necessary repair and maintenance of the farm vehicle at a repair shop.
While the 25-mile travel restriction is based on, and specific to, the farm address listed on the farm vehicle's registration, the farmer must file additional paperwork specifically addressing all points of destina- tion for that specific registered farm vehicle. This information must then be kept on file with the vehicle registration as an attachment. Each time the farmer acquires additional land or finds it necessary to travel to an alternate destination in order to conduct business, he/she must file another document with the Department of Motor Vehicles which expends time and staff resources on behalf of the farmer and the State.
With state law already strictly designating use of farm plated vehicles to within 25 miles of the farm that the vehicle is registered to, the additional documentation and maintenance of such paperwork with the State is duplicative and unnecessary. The repeal of this requirement would allow our farm community to focus their valuable time planting and harvesting crops throughout vital months of the year instead of devoting their efforts towards unnecessary filing requirements.
Legislative history
2011-2012: S.5262 Passed Senate / A.8351 Referred to Transportation 2013-2014: S.1951 Passed Senate / A.169 Referred to Transportation 2015-2016: S.2399 Passed Senate/A.1429 Referred to Transportation 2017-S.3929 Passed Senate/A.4485 Referred to Transportation 2018-5.3928 Remained in Committee/A. 4485 Referred to Transportation
Fiscal impact
None to the state.
Effective date
This act shall take effect immediately.
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