Bill Text: NY A01274 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to authorizing chief executives to designate any vehicle as an emergency vehicle during a state of emergency.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 11-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to governmental operations [A01274 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A01274-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1274

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     January 8, 2021
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        Introduced by M. of A. MAGNARELLI, PICHARDO, LUPARDO, GOTTFRIED, LAVINE,
          J. RIVERA,  BICHOTTE HERMELYN, JONES -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.
          BRAUNSTEIN, SIMON, THIELE -- read once and referred to  the  Committee
          on Governmental Operations

        AN  ACT  to  amend the vehicle and traffic law and the executive law, in
          relation to authorizing chief executives to designate any  vehicle  as
          an  emergency  vehicle during a declaration of a disaster emergency by
          executive action or local state of emergency

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  Section 101 of the vehicle and traffic law, as amended by
     2  chapter 446 of the laws of 2003, is amended to read as follows:
     3    § 101. Authorized emergency vehicle. Every ambulance,  police  vehicle
     4  or  bicycle,  correction  vehicle, fire vehicle, civil defense emergency
     5  vehicle, emergency ambulance service vehicle,  blood  delivery  vehicle,
     6  county  emergency  medical  services  vehicle,  environmental  emergency
     7  response vehicle, sanitation patrol vehicle, hazardous  materials  emer-
     8  gency  vehicle  and ordnance disposal vehicle of the armed forces of the
     9  United States and any vehicle a chief executive, as defined pursuant  to
    10  section  twenty of the executive law, authorizes as an emergency vehicle
    11  during the governor's declaration of a disaster emergency  by  executive
    12  action  pursuant to section twenty-eight of the executive law or a local
    13  state of emergency as defined pursuant to  section  twenty-four  of  the
    14  executive law.
    15    §  2. Paragraph a of subdivision 1 of section 24 of the executive law,
    16  as added by chapter 640 of the laws of  1978,  is  amended  to  read  as
    17  follows:
    18    a.  the  establishment  of a curfew and the prohibition and control of
    19  pedestrian and vehicular traffic, except essential  [emergency  vehicles
    20  and  personnel]  authorized  emergency  vehicles  as defined pursuant to
    21  section one hundred one of the vehicle and traffic law;

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1    § 3. Paragraph g of subdivision 1 of section 24 of the executive  law,
     2  as  relettered  by  chapter 158 of the laws of 1994, is relettered para-
     3  graph h and a new paragraph g is added to read as follows:
     4    g. the designation of any vehicle as an authorized emergency vehicle;
     5    § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.