Details on ATV Fund Repealer in 2006-2007 NY State Budget
Copied below is an excerpt from the State Budget bill that affects ATVs, passed by the Legislature on 4/1/06. The Budget will “age on the Governor’s desk” for 10 days and automatically become law on 4/11 unless he signs it earlier, or vetoes it — which is not expected to happen.
Summary:
Effective in 60 days from enactment date of the Budget (now eff. 6/11/06)—
· The $15 fee increase from 2005 is repealed, rolling registration back to $10.
· The dedicated Trail Fund created in 2005 for the never-enacted Trail Program is repealed.
· The Trail Fund fees collected in 2005 will be credited toward extending each ATV existing registration for the 2006-2007 registration term.
Also of note—
· Dealer Point-of-Sale registration requirement remains in effect (V&T 48B-2282-6-A).
· The registration term for ATVs registered through dealers on or after 4/1/05 is supposed to be September 1—August 31.
· The registration term for registrants with the prior term of May 1—April 30 were not changed to the new term and may have already been billed for renewal at $25 for their 2006-2007 registration term.
The 60-day period was included in the event that stand-alone legislation might be completed to create a Trail Program, and upon such passage the repealers would presumably be removed from the 2006-2007 Budget Law so that funding could flow to the new Program.
Those wishing to benefit from a positive outcome in 2006 are once again strongly encouraged to contact their Senate and Assembly members to argue the merits of managed, funded trails. Doing nothing for ATVers —as some politicians and anti-ATV activists are advocating for— is not a solution that helps improve matters for anyone on any side of the argument.
See www.nysorva.org/legislation for more information and tools to help you contact your elected representatives.
({Stikethrough} is repealed text, CAPS is added text)
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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S. 6459--C A. 9559--B
Cal. No. 501
S E N A T E - A S S E M B L Y
January 20, 2006
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AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to... ...to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to all terrain vehicle (ATV) registration fees, and to repeal subdivision 4-a of section 2282 of the vehicle and traffic law and section 92-o of the state finance law relating thereto (Part G);. . .
. . .
34 PART G
35 Section 1. Subdivision 4-a of section 2282 of the vehicle and traffic
36 law is REPEALED.
37 S 2. Section 92-o of the state finance law is REPEALED.
38 S 3. Section 2291 of the vehicle and traffic law, as amended by
39 section 4 of part D of chapter 59 of the laws of 2005, is amended to
40 read as follows:
41 S 2291. Disposition of fees. The commissioner shall deposit all monies
42 received from the registration of ATVs and all fees otherwise collected
43 under
this article to the credit of the general fund {except that the
44 fee
imposed by subdivision four-a of section twenty-two hundred eighty-
45 two
of this article shall be deposited to the credit of the all terrain
46
vehicle trail development, enforcement and stewardship fund
as estab-
47 lished
by section ninety-two-o of the state finance law}, AS PRESCRIBED
48 BY SECTION TWENTY-TWO HUNDRED EIGHTY-TWO OF THIS CHAPTER.
49 S 4. Any person who, upon registration of an all terrain vehicle (ATV)
50 or renewal thereof, paid the additional fee provided for under subdivi-
51 sion 4-a of section 2282 of the vehicle and traffic law prior to the
52 effective date of this act, shall be entitled to an extension of his or
53 her registration for a duration of one year. The commissioner of the
54 department of motor vehicles shall provide notification of such regis-
S. 6459--C 8 A. 9559--B
1 tration extension to each such person and shall issue a certificate of
2 registration to each such person in a manner and form as the commission-
3 er shall prescribe.
4 S 5. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
5 have become a law.