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Assembly Bill A5023

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Requires identification by markings of vehicles involved in transportation of contaminated blood, makes other provisions for records for other blood

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2009-A5023 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Transportation
Law Section:
Transportation Law
Laws Affected:
Add ยง14-n, Transp L

2009-A5023 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires an identifying placard on and carrying of manifest within vehicles transporting contaminated and untested blood within the state; provides for the commissioner of environmental conservation to adopt subject rules and regulations therefor.

2009-A5023 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  5023

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            February 10, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced by M. of A. BRODSKY -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. WEISEN-
  BERG -- read once and referred to the Committee on Transportation

AN ACT to amend the transportation law, in relation to identification of
  vehicles carrying contaminated blood and other blood

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. The transportation law is amended by adding a  new  section
14-n to read as follows:
  S 14-N. TRANSPORTATION OF CONTAMINATED BLOOD. 1. DEFINITIONS.  FOR THE
PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION:
  (A)  "VEHICLE" SHALL MEAN EVERY DEVICE IN WHICH PROPERTY MAY BE TRANS-
PORTED UPON A HIGHWAY, STATIONARY RAILS OR TRACKS, OR ON  THE  NAVIGABLE
WATERWAYS OF THE STATE.
  (B)  "BLOOD"  SHALL  MEAN HUMAN BLOOD AND PRODUCTS OF BLOOD, INCLUDING
SERUM, PLASMA, AND OTHER BLOOD COMPONENTS.
  2. VEHICLES CARRYING ANY QUANTITY OF BLOOD WHICH  IS  KNOWN  TO  BE  A
REGULATED  MEDICAL  WASTE  AS DEFINED IN SECTION 27-1501 OF THE ENVIRON-
MENTAL CONSERVATION LAW SHALL HAVE CONSPICUOUS MARKINGS INDICATING  THAT
THEY  ARE  TRANSPORTING SUCH WASTES. THE NATURE OF THE MARKINGS REQUIRED
SHALL BE SPECIFIED IN REGULATIONS PROMULGATED  BY  THE  COMMISSIONER  OF
ENVIRONMENTAL  CONSERVATION  IN CONSULTATION WITH THE COMMISSIONER. SUCH
REGULATIONS SHALL PERMIT THE USE OF MAGNETIC OR OTHER SUITABLE,  REMOVA-
BLE  MARKINGS  AND  THE REMOVAL OF SUCH MARKINGS WHEN THE VEHICLE IS NOT
CARRYING SUCH BLOOD.
  3. VEHICLES CARRYING BLOOD WHICH HAS NOT BEEN TESTED TO  DETERMINE  IF
IT  IS A REGULATED MEDICAL WASTE OR WHICH IS NOT KNOWN TO BE A REGULATED
MEDICAL WASTE SHALL HAVE A CONSPICUOUS MARKING ON THE VEHICLE INDICATING
THAT THERE IS BLOOD ON BOARD OR, IF THE TOTAL QUANTITY OF BLOOD IS  LESS
THAN  ONE  POUND,  SHALL  TRANSPORT  SUCH  BLOOD  IN  A CONTAINER WITH A
CONSPICUOUS MARKING INDICATING THAT THE CONTENTS OF  SUCH  CONTAINER  IS
BLOOD  WHICH  HAS  NOT  BEEN  TESTED. THE NATURE OF THE MARKING REQUIRED
SHALL BE SPECIFIED IN REGULATIONS PROMULGATED  BY  THE  COMMISSIONER  OF
ENVIRONMENTAL  CONSERVATION  IN CONSULTATION WITH THE COMMISSIONER. SUCH
REGULATIONS SHALL PROVIDE FOR SUFFICIENT MARKINGS TO INDICATE THAT  SUCH

              

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