new nys limo law

[ted sweet]

makes its impossible to register a limo made before 2011 unless you can get the manufacturer to certify it meets 2011 standards. no exemption for an antique personally owned car. a friend had to turn in his plates because he cant get such a certification

[EmTee]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schoharie_limousine_crash

[ted sweet]

how a law at federal level is being pushed. the age of the limo had nothing to do with crash

[Walt G]

Once again, perhaps well meaning legislators/legislation will not take into account vintage vehicles that are collected and not used for the intent they were built for 30+ years ago

No overall view and blinders on to stop a tragedy like that from happening again. Human error /fault will not be blamed, blame the car.

[edinmass]

Back in the early 90’s Massachuetts would not let you title a car as a limousine unless you had livery insurance......which was something like 10k a car per year back then. I had my 1931 Cadillac titled as a limousine, but not registered until it was sorted. How did I solve the problem and get it registered and insured?......simple bureaucratic logic. I bought them in the sales catalog showing that it was an Imperial Limousine. The law only applied to limousines. I pushed the registry to show me where it said imperial limousine in the law......it didn’t. And I was able to register it normally. 

[prewarnut]

Yes but would today's autocrats be able to parse the difference between imperial and Imperial?