Bill Text: NY A01812 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to traffic ticket liability for midwives responding to emergency medical situations.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-14 - referred to transportation [A01812 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-A01812-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1812

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 14, 2025
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        Introduced by M. of A. PHEFFER AMATO, BICHOTTE HERMELYN, BARRETT, ROZIC,
          SIMON,  EICHENSTEIN,  REYES -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Transportation

        AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to limiting the
          liability of midwives  for  monetary  penalties  for  certain  traffic
          violations committed while responding to a patient

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

     1    Section 1. Section 240 of the vehicle and traffic law  is  amended  by
     2  adding a new subdivision 1-c to read as follows:
     3    1-c.  At  every hearing for the adjudication of a notice of liability,
     4  as provided by this article, there shall  be  a  rebuttable  presumption
     5  that  an  owner of a motor vehicle who is a licensed midwife, alleged to
     6  be liable in accordance with any provisions of law specifically  author-
     7  izing the imposition of monetary liability on the owner of a vehicle for
     8  failure  of  an  operator  thereof: to comply with traffic-control indi-
     9  cations in violation of subdivision (d) of section eleven hundred eleven
    10  of this chapter through the installation and operation  of  traffic-con-
    11  trol signal photo violation-monitoring systems, in accordance with arti-
    12  cle  twenty-four of this chapter; or to comply with certain posted maxi-
    13  mum speed limits in violation of subdivision (b), (c), (d), (f)  or  (g)
    14  of  section  eleven hundred eighty of this chapter through the installa-
    15  tion and operation of  photo  speed  violation  monitoring  systems,  in
    16  accordance  with  article  thirty of this chapter; or to comply with bus
    17  lane restrictions as defined by  article  twenty-four  of  this  chapter
    18  through  the  installation  and  operation of bus lane photo devices, in
    19  accordance with article twenty-four of this chapter, is not  liable  for
    20  such alleged violation if such owner provides the hearing officer with a
    21  signed  and  affirmed  affidavit attesting that such owner is a midwife,
    22  and was responding to an emergency medical situation at  the  time  that

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04228-01-5
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     1  the  alleged  violation  occurred,  or  such other proof as such hearing
     2  officer deems appropriate.
     3    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
     4  it  shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amend-
     5  ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
     6  tation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be  made  and
     7  completed on or before such effective date.