STATE OF NEW YORK
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4020--A
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 2, 2023
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Introduced by Sens. MAYER, GRIFFO, HINCHEY, KAVANAGH, MARTINEZ, PERSAUD,
SKOUFIS, WEBER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to
be committed to the Committee on Local Government -- committee
discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
to said committee
AN ACT to amend the general municipal law in relation to emergency
medical services
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The opening paragraph of subdivision 1 of section 122-b of
2 the general municipal law, as amended by chapter 471 of the laws of
3 2011, is amended and a new paragraph (g) is added to read as follows:
4 [Any] General ambulance services are an essential service. Every
5 county, city, town [or] and village, acting individually or jointly or
6 in conjunction with a special district, [may provide] shall ensure that
7 an emergency medical service, a general ambulance service or a combina-
8 tion of such services are provided for the purpose of providing prehos-
9 pital emergency medical treatment or transporting sick or injured
10 persons found within the boundaries of the municipality or the munici-
11 palities acting jointly to a hospital, clinic, sanatorium or other place
12 for treatment of such illness or injury, [and for] provided, however,
13 the provisions of this subdivision shall not apply to a city with a
14 population of one million or more. In furtherance of that purpose, a
15 county, city, town or village may:
16 (g) Establish a special district for the financing and operation of
17 general ambulance services as set forth by this section, whereby any
18 county, city, town or village, acting individually, or jointly with any
19 other county, city, town and/or village, through its governing body or
20 bodies, following applicable procedures as are required for the estab-
21 lishment of fire districts in article eleven of the town law or follow-
22 ing applicable procedures as are required for the establishment of joint
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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1 fire districts in article eleven-A of the town law, with such special
2 district being authorized by this section to be established in all or
3 any part of any such participating county or counties, town or towns,
4 city or cities and/or village or villages.
5 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.