Bill Text: NY A04238 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Exempts voluntary ambulance service or rescue squads from tolls on any highway, bridge, tunnel or other toll road on the NYS thruway while responding to an emergency or furnishing voluntary ambulance services.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 6-3)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to transportation [A04238 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A04238-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4238
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 1, 2019
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  DenDEKKER  --  read once and referred to the
          Committee on Transportation
        AN ACT in relation to exempting voluntary ambulance  services  from  the
          payment of tolls
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary,
     2  the payment of tolls on any highway, bridge, tunnel or other  toll  road
     3  within this state shall not apply to a voluntary ambulance service oper-
     4  ating pursuant to a valid operating certificate as described in subdivi-
     5  sion  1  of  section 3005 of the public health law while such vehicle is
     6  responding to an emergency or furnishing voluntary ambulance services.
     7    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD07793-01-9