Bill Text: NY A02738 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires fire company command vehicles to be equipped with a partition or cage separating the front and rear seats.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-01-04 - referred to transportation [A02738 Detail]
Download: New_York-2011-A02738-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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2738
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
January 20, 2011
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Introduced by M. of A. GABRYSZAK, CASTRO -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of
A. FINCH, PHEFFER, WEISENBERG -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Transportation
AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to requiring
certain emergency vehicles to be equipped with a protective screen
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
1 Section 1. Section 375 of the vehicle and traffic law is amended by
2 adding a new subdivision 52 to read as follows:
3 52. FIRE COMPANY COMMAND VEHICLE PARTITIONS OR CAGES. EVERY FIRE
4 COMPANY COMMAND VEHICLE REGISTERED IN THIS STATE AND REGISTERED OR
5 LICENSED BY A CITY, TOWN OR VILLAGE SHALL BE EQUIPPED WITH PARTITIONS OR
6 CAGES MADE OF STEEL OR OTHER PROTECTIVE MATERIAL OF EQUAL STRENGTH
7 LOCATED BETWEEN AND EFFECTIVELY SEPARATING THE FRONT AND REAR SEATS AND
8 PREVENTING ANY ITEM FROM THE REAR SEAT TO BE PROPELLED INTO THE FRONT
9 SEAT.
10 S 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
11 it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD07631-01-1
