Bill Text: NY A02407 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Allows police vehicles to have one or more forward facing blue lights, provided that such blue light can only be displayed in combination with a red and/or white light.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 7-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2024-01-03 - referred to transportation [A02407 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A02407-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2407

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 26, 2023
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        Introduced  by M. of A. ANGELINO, BRABENEC, LEMONDES, McDONOUGH, MILLER,
          MORINELLO -- read once and referred to the Committee on Transportation

        AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law,  in  relation  to  allowing
          police vehicles to have one or more forward facing blue lights

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

     1    Section 1. Subparagraph b of paragraph 4 of subdivision 41 of  section
     2  375  of  the  vehicle  and traffic law, as amended by chapter 143 of the
     3  laws of 2011, is amended to read as follows:
     4    b. In addition to the red and white lights authorized to be  displayed
     5  pursuant  to  paragraph two of this subdivision, one or more blue lights
     6  or combination blue and red lights or combination blue,  red  and  white
     7  lights  may  be  affixed  to  a police vehicle, fire vehicle, ambulance,
     8  emergency  ambulance  service  vehicle,  and  county  emergency  medical
     9  services  vehicle  provided  that  such  blue  light  or lights shall be
    10  displayed on a [police  vehicle,]  fire  vehicle,  ambulance,  emergency
    11  ambulance service vehicle, and county emergency medical services vehicle
    12  for  rear  projection only, and provided further that such blue light or
    13  lights may be displayed on a police  vehicle  for  rear  projection  and
    14  forward  projection. If such blue light is displayed on a police vehicle
    15  for forward projection, such blue light shall be displayed  in  combina-
    16  tion  with a red and/or white light. In the event that the trunk or rear
    17  gate of a police vehicle, fire vehicle, ambulance,  emergency  ambulance
    18  service vehicle, and county emergency medical services vehicle obstructs
    19  or  diminishes  the visibility of other emergency lighting on such vehi-
    20  cles, a blue light may be affixed to and displayed from the trunk,  rear
    21  gate  or  interior  of  such vehicles. Such lights may be displayed on a
    22  police vehicle, fire vehicle,  ambulance,  emergency  ambulance  service
    23  vehicle,  and  county emergency medical services vehicle when such vehi-
    24  cles are engaged in an emergency operation. Nothing  contained  in  this
    25  subparagraph  shall  be  deemed  to  authorize the use of blue lights on

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06603-01-3
        A. 2407                             2

     1  police vehicles, fire vehicles, ambulances, emergency ambulance  service
     2  vehicles,  and  county  emergency  medical services vehicles unless such
     3  vehicles also display one or more  red  or  combination  red  and  white
     4  lights as otherwise authorized in this subdivision.
     5    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.