Bill Text: NY A05400 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires the use of seatbelts by volunteer firefighters and volunteer ambulance service workers; provides exception for vehicles which do not have restraint systems provided by the manufacturer or to volunteer firefighters not seated within the confines of the vehicle or emergency medical personnel providing patient care in the rear compartment of an ambulance.

Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 15-1)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2014-06-16 - REFERRED TO RULES [A05400 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-A05400-Amended.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                        5400--A
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   February 25, 2013
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       Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  THIELE, GUNTHER, JAFFEE, ABINANTI, BRINDISI,
         GALEF, PAULIN, STIRPE, FAHY -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. GOODELL,
         LIFTON, MAGEE, McDONALD, MILLER, SKARTADOS, WEISENBERG  --  read  once
         and  referred to the Committee on Transportation -- recommitted to the
         Committee on Transportation in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2
         -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered  reprinted  as  amended
         and recommitted to said committee
       AN  ACT  to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to the use of
         seatbelts by volunteer firefighters
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Paragraph  (a)  of subdivision 4 of section 1229-c of the
    2  vehicle and traffic law, as separately amended by chapters 232  and  509
    3  of the laws of 2004, is amended to read as follows:
    4    (a)  "motor  vehicle"  shall  include  all  motor  vehicles  which are
    5  required by section three hundred eighty-three of this chapter or  regu-
    6  lation or would be required if such motor vehicle were registered in New
    7  York  state  to be equipped by a safety belt but shall not include those
    8  vehicles which are used as school buses, as  such  term  is  defined  in
    9  section  one  hundred forty-two of this chapter and those vehicles which
   10  are authorized emergency vehicles, as such term is  defined  in  section
   11  one hundred one of this chapter, PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT FOR PURPOSES OF
   12  THIS  SECTION,  "MOTOR  VEHICLE"  SHALL ALSO INCLUDE FIRE VEHICLES OWNED
   13  AND/OR OPERATED BY A FIRE COMPANY  AS  DEFINED  BY  SUBDIVISION  TWO  OF
   14  SECTION  ONE  HUNDRED  OF THE GENERAL MUNICIPAL LAW AND AMBULANCES OWNED
   15  AND/OR OPERATED BY A VOLUNTARY AMBULANCE SERVICE AS DEFINED BY  SUBDIVI-
   16  SION THREE OF SECTION ONE HUNDRED OF THE GENERAL MUNICIPAL LAW;
   17    S 2. Subdivision 3-a of section 1229-c of the vehicle and traffic law,
   18  as amended by chapter 403 of the laws of 2009, is renumbered subdivision
   19  3-b.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD08936-04-4
       A. 5400--A                          2
    1    S  3.  Section  1229-c  of  the  vehicle and traffic law is amended by
    2  adding a new subdivision 10-a to read as follows:
    3    10-A.  NOTWITHSTANDING  THE  PROVISIONS  OF  SUBDIVISION  ONE  OF THIS
    4  SECTION, NO PERSON SIXTEEN YEARS OF AGE OR OVER SHALL BE A PASSENGER  IN
    5  THE  REAR SEAT OF A FIRE VEHICLE OWNED AND/OR OPERATED BY A FIRE COMPANY
    6  AS DEFINED BY SUBDIVISION TWO OF SECTION  ONE  HUNDRED  OF  THE  GENERAL
    7  MUNICIPAL  LAW OR IN THE REAR SEAT OF AN AMBULANCE OWNED AND/OR OPERATED
    8  BY A VOLUNTARY AMBULANCE SERVICE AS  DEFINED  BY  SUBDIVISION  THREE  OF
    9  SECTION  ONE  HUNDRED OF THE GENERAL MUNICIPAL LAW UNLESS SUCH PERSON IS
   10  RESTRAINED BY A SAFETY BELT  APPROVED  BY  THE  COMMISSIONER.  PROVIDED,
   11  HOWEVER, THAT THE PROVISIONS OF THIS SUBDIVISION SHALL NOT APPLY: (A) TO
   12  A  PASSENGER  IN THE REAR SEAT OF SUCH FIRE VEHICLE OR AMBULANCE IF SUCH
   13  SEAT IS NOT REQUIRED TO BE EQUIPPED WITH SAFETY BELTS  PURSUANT  TO  THE
   14  PROVISIONS  OF  SECTION  THREE HUNDRED EIGHTY-THREE OF THIS CHAPTER, NOR
   15  (B) TO EMERGENCY  MEDICAL  PERSONNEL  DURING  THE  COURSE  OF  PROVIDING
   16  PATIENT  CARE IN THE REAR COMPARTMENT OF AN AMBULANCE IN ACCORDANCE WITH
   17  APPLICABLE PATIENT CARE STANDARDS, GUIDELINES AND PROTOCOLS  ESTABLISHED
   18  PURSUANT TO ARTICLE THIRTY OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH LAW.
   19    S 4. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
   20  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.