Bill Text: NY A10332 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Relates to the minimum and maximum amounts of indemnity bonds or insurance polices for ambulettes.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-04-29 - referred to transportation [A10332 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A10332-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          10332

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     April 29, 2020
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  McDONOUGH  --  read once and referred to the
          Committee on Transportation

        AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to  the  indem-
          nity bonds and insurance policies for ambulettes

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

     1    Section 1. The second  undesignated  paragraph  of  subdivision  1  of
     2  section 370 of the vehicle and traffic law, as amended by chapter 408 of
     3  the laws of 2019, is amended to read as follows:
     4    For damages for and incident to death or injuries to persons and inju-
     5  ry to or destruction of property: For each motorcycle and for each motor
     6  vehicle  engaged  in the business of carrying or transporting passengers
     7  for hire, having a seating capacity of not more than seven passengers, a
     8  bond or insurance policy with a minimum liability of  twenty-five  thou-
     9  sand dollars and a maximum liability of fifty thousand dollars for bodi-
    10  ly injury, and a minimum liability of fifty thousand dollars and a maxi-
    11  mum  liability  of  one hundred thousand dollars for death and a minimum
    12  liability of ten thousand dollars for injury to or destruction of  prop-
    13  erty;  for  each  motor  vehicle  engaged in the business of carrying or
    14  transporting passengers for hire, having a seating capacity of not  less
    15  than eight passengers, a bond or insurance policy with a combined single
    16  limit  of  at least one million five hundred thousand dollars for bodily
    17  injury or death to one or more persons, and  because  of  injury  to  or
    18  destruction  of  property  in any one accident; except that for an ambu-
    19  lette, as defined in 17 NYCRR Part 720.8, with a seating capacity of not
    20  less than eight nor more than twelve passengers,  a  bond  or  insurance
    21  policy  with  a  minimum liability of twenty-five thousand dollars and a
    22  maximum liability of eighty thousand dollars, per passenger, for  bodily
    23  injury,  and a minimum liability of fifty thousand dollars and a maximum
    24  liability of one hundred fifty  thousand  dollars,  per  passenger,  for
    25  death.
    26    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15818-02-0
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