Bill Text: NY S06166 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to equipping vehicles with radio devices; provides that the prohibition against equipping a vehicle with radio receiving sets capable of receiving signals on police frequencies shall not apply to any person acting pursuant to their special duties who is a police officer, peace officer or employee of the division of homeland security and emergency services.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION [S06166 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S06166-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6166

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                      May 21, 2019
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  BROOKS  -- (at request of the Division of Homeland
          Security and Emergency Services) -- 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, in relation to equipping
          vehicles with radio devices

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

     1    Section  1.  Section 397 of the vehicle and traffic law, as amended by
     2  chapter 843 of the laws of 1980, is amended to read as follows:
     3    § 397. Equipping motor vehicles with radio receiving sets  capable  of
     4  receiving  signals  on  the  frequencies  allocated  for police use.   A
     5  person[, not a police officer or peace officer, acting pursuant  to  his
     6  special  duties,]  who equips a motor vehicle with a radio receiving set
     7  capable of receiving signals on the frequencies allocated for police use
     8  or knowingly uses a motor vehicle so equipped or who in any way knowing-
     9  ly interferes with the transmission of  radio  messages  by  the  police
    10  without  having  first secured a permit so to do from the person author-
    11  ized to issue such a permit by the local governing body or board of  the
    12  city, town or village in which such person resides, or where such person
    13  resides  outside of a city or village in a county having a county police
    14  department by the board of supervisors of such county, is  guilty  of  a
    15  misdemeanor, punishable by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, or
    16  imprisonment  not exceeding six months, or both. Nothing in this section
    17  contained shall be construed to apply to any person who  holds  a  valid
    18  amateur  radio  operator's  license issued by the federal communications
    19  commission and who operates a duly licensed portable mobile  transmitter
    20  and  in  connection therewith a receiver or receiving set on frequencies
    21  exclusively allocated by the federal communications commission  to  duly
    22  licensed  radio  amateurs.  This  section shall not apply to any person,
    23  acting pursuant to their special duties, who is a police officer,  peace
    24  officer,  or employee of the division of homeland security and emergency
    25  services.
    26    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

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