S 1599: Increases, from 8,600 pounds to 10,000 pounds, the gross vehicle weight rating of vehicles engaged in commercial towing that must be registered as tow trucks.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1599 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE January 10, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sen. LANZA -- 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 the regis- tered weight of tow trucks The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 401-b of the vehicle and traffic law, as added by 2 chapter 552 of the laws of 1994, is amended to read as follows: 3 § 401-b. Registration of tow trucks. Every motor vehicle engaged in 4 commercial towing in this state shall be registered and identified as a 5 tow truck, as hereinafter provided. No motor vehicle shall be registered 6 as a tow truck unless it shall have a gross vehicle weight rating of at 7 least [eighty-six hundred] ten thousand pounds and the application for 8 such registration is accompanied by proof of financial security which 9 shall meet the requirements of article six of this chapter. Upon 10 payment of the fees set forth in schedule H of subdivision seven of 11 section four hundred one of this article, such a motor vehicle shall be 12 issued a license plate identifying it as a "tow truck". It shall consti- 13 tute a class A misdemeanor to engage in commercial towing with a tow 14 truck that is not registered pursuant to this section. 15 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after 16 it shall have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD02464-01-5