Bill Text: NY S07809 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Provides for a distinctive placard for licensed physicians, visiting nurses, nurses, physical therapists and chiropractors to permit parking in parking prohibited zones for a period of up to one hour while attending to a patient in the immediate vicinity.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-02-24 - REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION [S07809 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S07809-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7809

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 24, 2020
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. KENNEDY -- 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  parking
          regulations

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

     1    Section 1. Section 1203 of the vehicle and traffic law is  amended  by
     2  adding a new subdivision (e) to read as follows:
     3    (e)  Where  parking  is prohibited by signs, but not where stopping or
     4  standing is prohibited, a duly licensed physician, visiting nurse, nurse
     5  as defined in article one hundred  thirty-nine  of  the  education  law,
     6  physical therapist or chiropractor may park his/her motor vehicle, iden-
     7  tified  by  a  special  placard  issued  by the commissioner pursuant to
     8  section four hundred four-ff of this chapter, for a period not to exceed
     9  one hour while attending to a patient in the immediate vicinity.
    10    § 2. The vehicle and traffic law is amended by adding  a  new  section
    11  404-ff to read as follows:
    12    §  404-ff. Distinctive placard for licensed physicians, visiting nurs-
    13  es, nurses, physical therapists and chiropractors. 1. Any duly  licensed
    14  physician,  visiting nurse, nurse, physical therapist or chiropractor in
    15  this state shall, upon request, be issued a distinctive placard  bearing
    16  a unique serial number in such form and detail as the commissioner shall
    17  prescribe.  Application for said placard shall be filed with the commis-
    18  sioner and shall be verified annually by the applicant.
    19    2. The distinctive placard  authorized  in  subdivision  one  of  this
    20  section  shall  be  issued upon proof, satisfactory to the commissioner,
    21  that the applicant is presently  a  duly  licensed  physician,  visiting
    22  nurse, nurse, physical therapist or chiropractor.
    23    3.  A  distinctive  placard  issued  pursuant to this section shall be
    24  issued upon payment  of  an  initial  one  time  service  charge  to  be
    25  prescribed by the commissioner.
    26    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14996-01-0
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