Bill Text: NY A06136 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

---

Bill Title: Provides that the thruway authority shall issue permits for ambulances and fire vehicles exempting such vehicles from paying tolls on the thruway when engaged in an emergency operation.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 34-19)

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-05-16 - REFERRED TO CORPORATIONS, AUTHORITIES AND COMMISSIONS [A06136 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A06136-Amended.html

---

                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                         6136--B

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      April 3, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. EACHUS, LUPARDO, BUTTENSCHON, SHIMSKY, LEVENBERG,
          ARDILA,  SIMON,  OTIS,  LUNSFORD,  DE LOS SANTOS,  ZACCARO,  JACOBSON,
          BLANKENBUSH, GALLAHAN, TAGUE,  BRABENEC,  MAHER,  DeSTEFANO,  BENDETT,
          ANGELINO,  BERGER, McDONALD, GUNTHER, PAULIN, AUBRY, WILLIAMS, BLUMEN-
          CRANZ, REYES,  GANDOLFO,  J. M. GIGLIO,  BEEPHAN,  NORRIS,  MANKTELOW,
          JENSEN,  GIBBS,  SEAWRIGHT,  LUCAS,  SIMPSON,  MCGOWAN,  SANTABARBARA,
          TAYLOR, LEMONDES, STIRPE, FAHY, BARRETT, COOK, SAYEGH -- read once and
          referred to the Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions
          -- recommitted to  the  Committee  on  Corporations,  Authorities  and
          Commissions  in  accordance  with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee
          discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
          to said committee -- again reported from said  committee  with  amend-
          ments, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN  ACT to amend the public authorities law, in relation to the issuance
          of permits to exempt ambulances and fire vehicles from paying tolls on
          the New York state thruway when engaged in an emergency operation

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

     1    Section  1.  Subdivision  1 of section 378-a of the public authorities
     2  law, as added by chapter 23 of the laws of 2010, is amended to  read  as
     3  follows:
     4    1.  The  authority is hereby authorized and directed to [issue refunds
     5  for tolls incurred by ambulances or fire vehicles engaged in an emergen-
     6  cy operation, or, at the option of the authority,  to]  issue  emergency
     7  services  permits  for  use  by ambulances and fire vehicles which shall
     8  provide for travel at no charge between interchanges and barriers  while
     9  such  vehicles  are engaged in an emergency operation, provided that the
    10  authority is authorized and directed to issue refunds for tolls incurred
    11  by such ambulances and fire vehicles engaged in an  emergency  operation
    12  while the applicable application for emergency services permits is pend-
    13  ing.   The authority shall promulgate rules and regulations establishing

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10280-06-4
        A. 6136--B                          2

     1  the process by which such ambulances and fire  vehicles  can  apply  for
     2  emergency  services  permits.  For  purposes  of  this section, the term
     3  "ambulance" shall have the same meaning  as  such  term  is  defined  by
     4  section  one  hundred-b  of  the vehicle and traffic law, the term "fire
     5  vehicle" shall have the same meaning as such term is defined by  section
     6  one  hundred  fifteen-a  of  the  vehicle  and traffic law, and the term
     7  "emergency operation" shall have  the  same  meaning  as  such  term  is
     8  defined  by  section  one  hundred fourteen-b of the vehicle and traffic
     9  law. In any rules and regulations promulgated for the implementation  of
    10  this  section,  the authority may establish the type of documentation or
    11  other proof satisfactory to the authority  that  an  ambulance  or  fire
    12  vehicle  was  engaged  in  an emergency operation at the time a toll was
    13  incurred.
    14    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.