upstate rider
04-02-2003, 08:34 AM
Need even more reason to insist your Legislators do something to help the OHV Riding Community this year?
NYS DMV Data Services recently released revised statistics for ATV registrations for 2002 year-end. The revision upward is now more in-line with what we expected based on the sales increases experienced by the state's dealers: ATV registrations grew by 27% (not 19% as previously reported) for a total of 125,357 machines registered. The gross income from ATV registration to the state's General Fund was therefore $1,253,570. This brings the grand total of registrations fees collected since 1986, with no return to the state's riders for trails, to $7,324,240, or $8,507,817 when adjusted for inflation. Furthermore, April registration renewals should result in at least another $1,250,000 added to the insult.
(Points of reference: Average annual growth in registration since the beginning of the legal requirement in 1986 is 17%; since 1997, 28%; highest growth was in 2001 at 42%.)
An updated full article on the subject including a year-by-year growth-revenue table is available at www.nysorva.org/documents/RegFeesCollected-unused.pdf.
You can be most effective right now by working with your local club or regional association, who will in turn work with State Legislative members to move our issues forward in the Legislative agenda.
Also, AMA/ATVA has updated their online letter-writing application to help you individually advocate for Trail Funding. The web-based toll linked above identifies your Legislative Members based on your address and creates letters for you that you can email or print off your computer to mail or fax.
Alex Ernst
Communications Director
NYSORVA Inc.
PO Box 250
Clarksville, NY 12041
Fax: 775-361-1342
http://www.nysorva.org
http://www.nyatvsafety.net
NYS DMV Data Services recently released revised statistics for ATV registrations for 2002 year-end. The revision upward is now more in-line with what we expected based on the sales increases experienced by the state's dealers: ATV registrations grew by 27% (not 19% as previously reported) for a total of 125,357 machines registered. The gross income from ATV registration to the state's General Fund was therefore $1,253,570. This brings the grand total of registrations fees collected since 1986, with no return to the state's riders for trails, to $7,324,240, or $8,507,817 when adjusted for inflation. Furthermore, April registration renewals should result in at least another $1,250,000 added to the insult.
(Points of reference: Average annual growth in registration since the beginning of the legal requirement in 1986 is 17%; since 1997, 28%; highest growth was in 2001 at 42%.)
An updated full article on the subject including a year-by-year growth-revenue table is available at www.nysorva.org/documents/RegFeesCollected-unused.pdf.
You can be most effective right now by working with your local club or regional association, who will in turn work with State Legislative members to move our issues forward in the Legislative agenda.
Also, AMA/ATVA has updated their online letter-writing application to help you individually advocate for Trail Funding. The web-based toll linked above identifies your Legislative Members based on your address and creates letters for you that you can email or print off your computer to mail or fax.
Alex Ernst
Communications Director
NYSORVA Inc.
PO Box 250
Clarksville, NY 12041
Fax: 775-361-1342
http://www.nysorva.org
http://www.nyatvsafety.net