Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2001 01:54:34 GMT From: cdenkernopsamester.rr.com (ByteSchlepper) Subject: Re: Where are most Saabs sold?
35-a. It shall be unlawful to operate a motor vehicle or trailer equipped with tires having metal objects protruding from the tire tread upon any public highway. The prohibition contained in this section shall not apply to pneumatic tires containing metal type studs, the diameter of which studs inclusive of the stud casing does not exceed three-eighths of an inch and which do not protrude beyond the tread surface of such tires more than three thirty-seconds of an inch and the contact area of which does not exceed three-fourths of one per cent of the total nominal contact area of said tires determined by multiplying the circumference of the outer most edge of tread times the tread width, except that no vehicle equipped with such tires, other than school buses and state or municipally-owned vehicles, may operate on a public highway during the period from the first day of May to the fifteenth day of October, inclusive. > I'm just curious, but exactly where in New York state are studded > tires >still legal? > > Many years ago I lived in a rural part of western New York state > where >there was a huge amount of snow. Even there, studded snow tires had >been banned since (I think) the fifties. In the area where I lived >there was a heavy predominance of dirt roads. > I got bored and had to look it up; it's legal in the whole state. You have to read it carefully but they're legal even longer than I thought. I doubt you'd find many people with them in NYC or they'd dig the roads up down to the sewers. I don't know when they were made legal again. It's getting harder to find studdable snows anyway so the whole issue may become moot. BTW, I'm not sure how the penalties are set but I remember hearing that it's a mandatory $500 fine for having them on outside the allowed dates. ß 375. Equipment 35-a. It shall be unlawful to operate a motor vehicle or trailer equipped with tires having metal objects protruding from the tire tread upon any public highway. The prohibition contained in this section shall not apply to pneumatic tires containing metal type studs, the diameter of which studs inclusive of the stud casing does not exceed three-eighths of an inch and which do not protrude beyond the tread surface of such tires more than three thirty-seconds of an inch and the contact area of which does not exceed three-fourths of one per cent of the total nominal contact area of said tires determined by multiplying the circumference of the outer most edge of tread times the tread width, except that no vehicle equipped with such tires, other than school buses and state or municipally-owned vehicles, may operate on a public highway during the period from the first day of May to the fifteenth day of October, inclusive.
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