Bill Text: NY A00225 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 225

Introduced

Bill Title: Relates to authorizing chief executives to designate any vehicle as an emergency vehicle during a state of emergency.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to governmental operations [A00225 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A00225-Introduced.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           225

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 4, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M. of A. MAGNARELLI, LUPARDO, LAVINE, BICHOTTE HERMELYN,
          JONES -- read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Oper-
          ations

        AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law and the  executive  law,  in
          relation  to  authorizing chief executives to designate any vehicle as
          an emergency vehicle during a declaration of a disaster  emergency  by
          executive action or local state of emergency

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

     1    Section 1. Section 101 of the vehicle and traffic law, as  amended  by
     2  chapter 496 of the laws of 2021, is amended to read as follows:
     3    §  101.  Authorized emergency vehicle. Every ambulance, police vehicle
     4  or bicycle, correction vehicle, fire vehicle,  civil  defense  emergency
     5  vehicle,  emergency  ambulance  service vehicle, blood delivery vehicle,
     6  human organ delivery vehicle, county emergency medical services vehicle,
     7  environmental emergency response  vehicle,  sanitation  patrol  vehicle,
     8  hazardous  materials  emergency vehicle and ordnance disposal vehicle of
     9  the armed forces of the United States and any vehicle a chief executive,
    10  as defined pursuant to section  twenty of the executive law,  authorizes
    11  as  an emergency vehicle during the governor's declaration of a disaster
    12  emergency  by executive action  pursuant to section twenty-eight of  the
    13  executive  law  or  a  local  state  of emergency as defined pursuant to
    14  section twenty-four of the executive law.
    15    § 2. Paragraph a of subdivision 1 of section 24 of the executive  law,
    16  as  added  by  chapter  640  of  the laws of 1978, is amended to read as
    17  follows:
    18    a. the establishment of a curfew and the prohibition  and  control  of
    19  pedestrian  and  vehicular traffic, except essential [emergency vehicles
    20  and personnel] authorized emergency  vehicles  as  defined  pursuant  to
    21  section one hundred one of the vehicle and traffic law;

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00251-01-3

        A. 225                              2

     1    §  3. Paragraph g of subdivision 1 of section 24 of the executive law,
     2  as relettered by chapter 158 of the laws of 1994,  is  relettered  para-
     3  graph h and a new paragraph g is added to read as follows:
     4    g. the designation of any vehicle as an authorized emergency vehicle;
     5    § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.