STATE OF NEW YORK
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1362
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 14, 2019
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Introduced by Sen. GALLIVAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation
AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law and the executive law, in
relation to authorizing chief executives to designate any vehicle as
an emergency vehicle during a declaration of a disaster emergency by
executive action or local state of emergency
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 101 of the vehicle and traffic law, as amended by
2 chapter 446 of the laws of 2003, is amended to read as follows:
3 § 101. Authorized emergency vehicle. Every ambulance, police vehicle
4 or bicycle, correction vehicle, fire vehicle, civil defense emergency
5 vehicle, emergency ambulance service vehicle, blood delivery vehicle,
6 county emergency medical services vehicle, environmental emergency
7 response vehicle, sanitation patrol vehicle, hazardous materials emer-
8 gency vehicle and ordnance disposal vehicle of the armed forces of the
9 United States and any vehicle a chief executive, as defined pursuant to
10 section twenty of the executive law, authorizes as an emergency vehicle
11 during the governor's declaration of a disaster emergency by executive
12 action pursuant to section twenty-eight of the executive law or a local
13 state of emergency as defined pursuant to section twenty-four of the
14 executive law.
15 § 2. Paragraph a of subdivision 1 of section 24 of the executive law,
16 as added by chapter 640 of the laws of 1978, is amended to read as
17 follows:
18 a. the establishment of a curfew and the prohibition and control of
19 pedestrian and vehicular traffic, except essential [emergency vehicles
20 and personnel] authorized emergency vehicles as defined pursuant to
21 section one hundred one of the vehicle and traffic law;
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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1 § 3. Paragraph g of subdivision 1 of section 24 of the executive law,
2 as relettered by chapter 158 of the laws of 1994, is relettered para-
3 graph h and a new paragraph g is added to read as follows:
4 g. the designation of any vehicle as an authorized emergency vehicle;
5 § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.