Bill Text: NY S07860 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to equipping vehicles with radio devices.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2014-06-19 - referred to transportation [S07860 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-S07860-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         7860
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                     June 16, 2014
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       Introduced  by  Sen.  SAVINO  -- (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 Rules
       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    S 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, OR PROHIBIT ANY AUTHORIZED PERSON EMPLOYED BY
   23  THE DIVISION OF HOMELAND SECURITY AND EMERGENCY SERVICES FROM  EQUIPPING
   24  A  VEHICLE  WITH AN AUTHORIZED, STATE-ISSUED AFFIXED, MOBILE OR PORTABLE
   25  RADIO APPARATUS CAPABLE OF TRANSMITTING  OR  RECEIVING  SIGNALS  ON  THE
   26  FREQUENCIES  ALLOCATED  FOR  POLICE  USE  OR  USING  A  MOTOR VEHICLE SO
   27  EQUIPPED.
   28    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD13824-01-4