Bill Text: NY A06110 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

---

Bill Title: Relates to ambulance registration fees.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 11-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-04-25 - held for consideration in transportation [A06110 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A06110-Introduced.html

---

                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          6110

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     March 10, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  BARCLAY, ASHBY, DeSTEFANO, ANGELINO, HAWLEY,
          J. M. GIGLIO, NORRIS -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.  BROWN,  GALLA-
          HAN, MANKTELOW -- read once and referred to the Committee on Transpor-
          tation

        AN  ACT  to  amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to ambulance
          registration fees

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

     1    Section  1. Paragraph b of subdivision 6 of section 401 of the vehicle
     2  and traffic law, as amended by chapter 168  of  the  laws  of  1987,  is
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    b.  The  provisions  of  this  article  with respect to the payment of
     5  registration fees shall not apply  to  ambulances  used  exclusively  to
     6  carry  sick or injured persons, other than those used in the business of
     7  carrying or transporting sick or injured persons for [hire or]  profit[,
     8  or];  provided,  however,  that  ambulance services that charge a fee to
     9  cover actual costs of such services shall not be considered  for  profit
    10  for  the  purposes  of  this section. Nor shall such provisions apply to
    11  motor vehicles which are especially constructed and  equipped  to  carry
    12  lost,  strayed, sick, maimed or disabled animals, and owned and operated
    13  for that purpose by a duly incorporated society,  incorporated  for  the
    14  purpose  of preventing cruelty to animals, or to motor vehicles owned or
    15  controlled by the state, a city, county, village, town, school district,
    16  or fire district or any of the departments thereof or  county  extension
    17  service  association  or  public  improvement  district formed under and
    18  pursuant to provisions of the town  law,  or  sanitary  district  formed
    19  pursuant  to  the provisions of chapter five hundred sixteen of the laws
    20  of nineteen hundred  twenty-eight,  as  amended,  or  soil  conservation
    21  districts  formed  pursuant  to  the provisions of the soil conservation
    22  districts law, or  to  motor  vehicles  owned  by  professional  foreign
    23  consuls-general,  consuls  and  vice  consuls,  who are nationals of the

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02577-01-1
        A. 6110                             2

     1  state appointing them and who are assigned to foreign consulates in  the
     2  state of New York, provided that American professional consular officers
     3  of  equal  rank  who  are citizens of the United States and who exercise
     4  their official functions at American consulates in such foreign country,
     5  are  granted  reciprocal exemption, or to motor vehicles owned and oper-
     6  ated by the American Red Cross, but in other respects shall be  applica-
     7  ble.
     8    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.