Bill Text: NY A06835 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Authorizes licensed podiatrists to certify a temporary disability for purposes of issuance of special vehicle identification parking permits to persons temporarily unable to ambulate without the aid of an assisting device as long as such condition is something he or she treats in the practice of podiatry.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-07-06 - enacting clause stricken [A06835 Detail]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6835
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                     March 21, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced by M. of A. CRESPO -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Transportation
        AN  ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to authorizing
          licensed podiatrists to certify a temporary disability for purposes of
          issuance of special vehicle identification parking permits to  persons
          temporarily unable to ambulate without the aid of an assisting device
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Paragraph (i) of subdivision 1 and subdivision 3 of section
     2  1203-a of the vehicle and traffic law, paragraph (i) of subdivision 1 as
     3  amended by chapter 180 of the laws of 1996 and subdivision 3 as  amended
     4  by chapter 220 of the laws of 1984, are amended to read as follows:
     5    (i)  any resident of New York state who is a severely disabled person,
     6  as defined in subdivision three of section four hundred four-a  of  this
     7  chapter,  upon  application  of  such  person or such person's parent or
     8  guardian, provided, however, that an issuing agent shall  issue  permits
     9  only  to  residents  of  the city, town or village in which such issuing
    10  agent is  located,  except  that,  an  issuing  agent,  in  his  or  her
    11  discretion,  may issue a permit to a severely disabled person who is not
    12  a resident of the city, town, or village in which such issuing agent  is
    13  located  where  such person resides in a city, town, or village in which
    14  the governing body has not appointed an issuing agent;  and  an  issuing
    15  agent,  in  his or her discretion, may issue a temporary special vehicle
    16  identification parking permit, as authorized  by  subdivision  three  of
    17  this  section, to a person who is temporarily unable to ambulate without
    18  the aid of an assisting device, as certified by a  physician  or  podia-
    19  trist,  who  resides  in  a  city, town, or village in which the issuing
    20  agent does not issue temporary special  vehicle  identification  parking
    21  permits,  or who is not a resident of the United States and is temporar-
    22  ily visiting the state; or
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10884-01-9

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     1    3. Notwithstanding any provision of this chapter to the contrary,  any
     2  municipality  may issue a temporary special vehicle identification park-
     3  ing permit to any person who is temporarily unable to  ambulate  without
     4  the  aid  of  an assisting device, as certified by a physician or podia-
     5  trist.    Such  temporary  special vehicle identification parking permit
     6  shall be valid for not more than six  months  and  shall  be  recognized
     7  statewide.
     8    §  2.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
     9  have become a law.
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