S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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3240
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
I N S E N A T E
February 14, 2011
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Introduced by Sen. GALLIVAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation
AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to ambulance
registration fees
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
1 Section 1. Paragraph b of subdivision 6 of section 401 of the vehicle
2 and traffic law, as amended by chapter 168 of the laws of 1987, is
3 amended to read as follows:
4 b. The provisions of this article with respect to the payment of
5 registration fees shall not apply to ambulances used exclusively to
6 carry sick or injured persons, other than those used in the business of
7 carrying or transporting sick or injured persons for [hire or] profit[,
8 or]; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT AMBULANCE SERVICES THAT CHARGE A FEE TO
9 COVER ACTUAL COSTS OF SUCH SERVICES SHALL NOT BE CONSIDERED FOR PROFIT
10 FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION. NOR SHALL SUCH PROVISIONS APPLY to
11 motor vehicles which are especially constructed and equipped to carry
12 lost, strayed, sick, maimed or disabled animals, and owned and operated
13 for that purpose by a duly incorporated society, incorporated for the
14 purpose of preventing cruelty to animals, or to motor vehicles owned or
15 controlled by the state, a city, county, village, town, school district,
16 or fire district or any of the departments thereof or county extension
17 service association or public improvement district formed under and
18 pursuant to provisions of the town law, or sanitary district formed
19 pursuant to the provisions of chapter five hundred sixteen of the laws
20 of nineteen hundred twenty-eight, as amended, or soil conservation
21 districts formed pursuant to the provisions of the soil conservation
22 districts law, or to motor vehicles owned by professional foreign
23 consuls-general, consuls and vice consuls, who are nationals of the
24 state appointing them and who are assigned to foreign consulates in the
25 state of New York, provided that American professional consular officers
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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1 of equal rank who are citizens of the United States and who exercise
2 their official functions at American consulates in such foreign country,
3 are granted reciprocal exemption, or to motor vehicles owned and oper-
4 ated by the American Red Cross, but in other respects shall be applica-
5 ble.
6 S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.