Assembly Bill A8117D

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

                                  8117

                       2011-2012 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              June 2, 2011
                               ___________

Introduced by M. of A. CUSICK -- read once and referred to the Committee
  on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions

AN  ACT  to amend the not-for-profit corporation law and the vehicle and
  traffic law, in relation to the operation of fire patrols

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

  Section  1.  The not-for-profit corporation law is amended by adding a
new section 1413 to read as follows:
S 1413. FIRE PATROLS.
  (A) ANY ORGANIZATION INCORPORATED ON OR AFTER APRIL FIRST,  TWO  THOU-
SAND  TEN  UNDER  THIS  CHAPTER  FOR THE PURPOSES OF PROTECTING LIFE AND
PROPERTY THROUGH THE SAFE AND EFFICIENT  MEANS  OF  MODERN  SALVAGE  AND
PROPERTY DAMAGE MITIGATION TECHNIQUES, OF SAVING OR REDUCING THE LOSS OF
PROPERTY  EXPOSED TO WATER, SMOKE OR GASSES, AND THEREBY REDUCING LOSSES
TO PROPERTY OWNERS, AND OF OTHER  PUBLIC  BENEFITS,  INCLUDING  BUT  NOT
LIMITED  TO  ASSISTING  FIRE DEPARTMENTS OR OTHER PUBLIC AGENCIES IN THE
COURSE OF THEIR RESPECTIVE DUTIES WHEN DULY AUTHORIZED THEREBY, SHALL BE
GOVERNED BY THIS CHAPTER AND SHALL BE KNOWN AS  AND  MAY  USE  THE  TERM
"FIRE PATROLS" TO DESCRIBE SUCH ENTITY.
  (B)  NOTHING  IN  THIS  CHAPTER SHALL PRECLUDE ANY ENTITY IN EXISTENCE
PRIOR TO APRIL FIRST, TWO THOUSAND TEN AND ORGANIZED UNDER THIS  CHAPTER
OR  ITS  PREDECESSOR ARTICLES, FOR PURPOSES SIMILAR TO THOSE IN SUBDIVI-
SION (A) OF THIS SECTION AND OPERATING AS OF THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF  THIS
SECTION  UNDER  THE  NAME OF A FIRE PATROL, FROM HOLDING ITSELF OUT AS A
FIRE PATROL AS THAT TERM IS DEFINED IN THIS SECTION.
  (C) FIRE PATROLS, IN THE EXECUTION OF ITS PURPOSES, INCLUDING BUT  NOT
LIMITED  TO  ASSISTING  FIRE DEPARTMENTS OR OTHER PUBLIC AGENCIES, SHALL
HAVE THE POWER TO ENTER ANY BUILDING ON FIRE OR WHICH MAY BE EXPOSED  TO
OR  IN  DANGER  OF  LOSS  OR DAMAGE BY FIRE, SMOKE OR WATER, OR IN WHICH
PROPERTY MAY BE IN DANGER OF LOSS OR DAMAGE FROM FIRE, SMOKE  OR  WATER,

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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AND  TO  PROTECT  AND  ENDEAVOR  TO  SAVE THE PROPERTY THEREIN AND, WHEN
NECESSARY, TO REMOVE SUCH PROPERTY OR ANY PART THEREOF.
  (D)  ANY VEHICLE AFFILIATED WITH A FIRE PATROL SHALL BE DEEMED TO BE A
FIRE VEHICLE AND THEREBY AN EMERGENCY VEHICLE AS DEFINED IN SECTIONS ONE
HUNDRED ONE AND ONE HUNDRED FIFTEEN-A OF THE VEHICLE AND TRAFFIC LAW AND
GOVERNED BY SECTION ELEVEN HUNDRED FOUR OF SUCH  LAW.  THE  VEHICLES  OF
SUCH  FIRE  PATROL SHALL ALSO BE DEEMED TO BE EMERGENCY VEHICLES FOR THE
PURPOSES OF SECTION TWO THOUSAND  THREE  HUNDRED  THIRTY-FIVE-A  OF  THE
INSURANCE LAW.
  S 2. Section 101 of the vehicle and traffic law, as amended by chapter
446 of the laws of 2003, is amended to read as follows:
  S  101.  Authorized emergency vehicle. Every ambulance, police vehicle
or bicycle, correction vehicle, fire vehicle, FIRE PATROL VEHICLE, civil
defense emergency vehicle, emergency ambulance  service  vehicle,  blood
delivery  vehicle,  county  emergency medical services vehicle, environ-
mental emergency response vehicle, sanitation patrol vehicle,  hazardous
materials  emergency  vehicle and ordnance disposal vehicle of the armed
forces of the United States.
  S 3. The opening paragraph of section 115-a of the vehicle and traffic
law, as amended by chapter 176 of the laws of 1973, is amended  to  read
as follows:
  Every  vehicle operated for fire service purposes owned and identified
as being owned by the state, a public authority, a county,  town,  city,
village  or  fire  district,  or  a  fire  corporation  subject  to  the
provisions of subdivision (e) of section fourteen  hundred  two  of  the
not-for-profit  corporation  law  [or],  a  fire  company  as defined in
section one hundred of the general municipal law OR  A  FIRE  PATROL  AS
DEFINED  IN  SUBDIVISION (A) OF SECTION FOURTEEN HUNDRED THIRTEEN OF THE
NOT-FOR-PROFIT CORPORATION LAW.  Any of the following vehicles shall  be
fire  vehicles  only  for the purpose of section one hundred one of this
[chapter] ARTICLE:
  S 4. This act shall take effect immediately.

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

                                 8117--A

                       2011-2012 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              June 2, 2011
                               ___________

Introduced  by  M.  of A. CUSICK, TOBACCO, MALLIOTAKIS, TITONE -- Multi-
  Sponsored by -- M. of A. O'DONNELL -- read once and  referred  to  the
  Committee  on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions -- recommitted
  to the Committee  on  Corporations,  Authorities  and  Commissions  in
  accordance  with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill
  amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said  commit-
  tee

AN  ACT  to amend the not-for-profit corporation law and the vehicle and
  traffic law, in relation to the operation of fire patrols

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

  Section  1.  The not-for-profit corporation law is amended by adding a
new section 1413 to read as follows:
S 1413. FIRE PATROLS.
  (A) ANY ORGANIZATION INCORPORATED ON OR AFTER APRIL FIRST,  TWO  THOU-
SAND  ELEVEN  UNDER THIS CHAPTER FOR THE PURPOSES OF PROTECTING LIFE AND
PROPERTY THROUGH THE SAFE AND EFFICIENT  MEANS  OF  MODERN  SALVAGE  AND
PROPERTY DAMAGE MITIGATION TECHNIQUES, OF SAVING OR REDUCING THE LOSS OF
PROPERTY  EXPOSED TO WATER, SMOKE OR GASSES, AND THEREBY REDUCING LOSSES
TO PROPERTY OWNERS, AND OF OTHER  PUBLIC  BENEFITS,  INCLUDING  BUT  NOT
LIMITED  TO  ASSISTING  FIRE DEPARTMENTS OR OTHER PUBLIC AGENCIES IN THE
COURSE OF THEIR RESPECTIVE DUTIES WHEN DULY AUTHORIZED THEREBY, SHALL BE
GOVERNED BY THIS CHAPTER AND SHALL BE KNOWN AS  AND  MAY  USE  THE  TERM
"FIRE PATROLS" TO DESCRIBE SUCH ENTITY.
  (B)  NOTHING  IN  THIS  CHAPTER SHALL PRECLUDE ANY ENTITY IN EXISTENCE
PRIOR TO APRIL FIRST, TWO THOUSAND ELEVEN AND ORGANIZED UNDER THIS CHAP-
TER OR ITS PREDECESSOR ARTICLES, FOR PURPOSES SIMILAR TO THOSE IN  PARA-
GRAPH (A) OF THIS SECTION AND OPERATING AS OF THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF THIS
SECTION  UNDER  THE  NAME OF A FIRE PATROL, FROM HOLDING ITSELF OUT AS A
FIRE PATROL AS THAT TERM IS DEFINED IN THIS SECTION.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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  (C) FIRE PATROLS, IN THE EXECUTION OF ITS PURPOSES, INCLUDING BUT  NOT
LIMITED  TO  ASSISTING  FIRE DEPARTMENTS OR OTHER PUBLIC AGENCIES, SHALL
HAVE THE POWER TO ENTER ANY BUILDING ON FIRE OR WHICH MAY BE EXPOSED  TO
OR  IN  DANGER  OF  LOSS  OR DAMAGE BY FIRE, SMOKE OR WATER, OR IN WHICH
PROPERTY  MAY  BE IN DANGER OF LOSS OR DAMAGE FROM FIRE, SMOKE OR WATER,
AND TO PROTECT AND ENDEAVOR TO  SAVE  THE  PROPERTY  THEREIN  AND,  WHEN
NECESSARY, TO REMOVE SUCH PROPERTY OR ANY PART THEREOF.
  (D)  ANY VEHICLE AFFILIATED WITH A FIRE PATROL SHALL BE DEEMED TO BE A
FIRE VEHICLE AND THEREBY AN EMERGENCY VEHICLE AS DEFINED IN SECTIONS ONE
HUNDRED ONE AND ONE HUNDRED FIFTEEN-A OF THE VEHICLE AND TRAFFIC LAW AND
GOVERNED BY SECTION ELEVEN HUNDRED FOUR OF SUCH  LAW.  THE  VEHICLES  OF
SUCH  FIRE  PATROL SHALL ALSO BE DEEMED TO BE EMERGENCY VEHICLES FOR THE
PURPOSES OF SECTION TWO THOUSAND  THREE  HUNDRED  THIRTY-FIVE-A  OF  THE
INSURANCE LAW.
  S 2. Section 101 of the vehicle and traffic law, as amended by chapter
446 of the laws of 2003, is amended to read as follows:
  S  101.  Authorized emergency vehicle. Every ambulance, police vehicle
or bicycle, correction vehicle, fire vehicle, FIRE PATROL VEHICLE, civil
defense emergency vehicle, emergency ambulance  service  vehicle,  blood
delivery  vehicle,  county  emergency medical services vehicle, environ-
mental emergency response vehicle, sanitation patrol vehicle,  hazardous
materials  emergency  vehicle and ordnance disposal vehicle of the armed
forces of the United States.
  S 3. The opening paragraph of section 115-a of the vehicle and traffic
law, as amended by chapter 176 of the laws of 1973, is amended  to  read
as follows:
  Every  vehicle operated for fire service purposes owned and identified
as being owned by the state, a public authority, a county,  town,  city,
village  or  fire  district,  or  a  fire  corporation  subject  to  the
provisions of [subdivision] PARAGRAPH (e) of  section  fourteen  hundred
two  of  the  not-for-profit  corporation  law  [or],  a fire company as
defined in section one hundred of the general municipal law  OR  A  FIRE
PATROL  AS DEFINED IN PARAGRAPH (A) OF SECTION FOURTEEN HUNDRED THIRTEEN
OF THE NOT-FOR-PROFIT CORPORATION LAW.   Any of the  following  vehicles
shall  be  fire vehicles only for the purpose of section one hundred one
of this [chapter] ARTICLE:
  S 4. This act shall take effect immediately.

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

                                 8117--B

                       2011-2012 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              June 2, 2011
                               ___________

Introduced  by  M.  of A. CUSICK, TOBACCO, MALLIOTAKIS, TITONE -- Multi-
  Sponsored by -- M. of A. O'DONNELL -- read once and  referred  to  the
  Committee  on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions -- recommitted
  to the Committee  on  Corporations,  Authorities  and  Commissions  in
  accordance  with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill
  amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said  commit-
  tee  --  again  reported  from said committee with amendments, ordered
  reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

AN ACT to amend the not-for-profit corporation law and the  vehicle  and
  traffic law, in relation to the operation of fire patrols

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

  Section 1. The not-for-profit corporation law is amended by  adding  a
new section 1413 to read as follows:
S 1413. FIRE PATROLS.
  (A)  ANY  ORGANIZATION INCORPORATED ON OR AFTER APRIL FIRST, TWO THOU-
SAND TEN UNDER THIS CHAPTER FOR THE  PURPOSES  OF  PROTECTING  LIFE  AND
PROPERTY  THROUGH  THE  SAFE  AND  EFFICIENT MEANS OF MODERN SALVAGE AND
PROPERTY DAMAGE MITIGATION TECHNIQUES, OF SAVING OR REDUCING THE LOSS OF
PROPERTY EXPOSED TO WATER, SMOKE OR GASSES, AND THEREBY REDUCING  LOSSES
TO  PROPERTY  OWNERS,  AND  OF  OTHER PUBLIC BENEFITS, INCLUDING BUT NOT
LIMITED TO ASSISTING FIRE DEPARTMENTS OR OTHER PUBLIC  AGENCIES  IN  THE
COURSE OF THEIR RESPECTIVE DUTIES WHEN DULY AUTHORIZED THEREBY, SHALL BE
GOVERNED  BY  THIS  CHAPTER  AND  SHALL BE KNOWN AS AND MAY USE THE TERM
"FIRE PATROL" OR "FIRE PATROLS" TO DESCRIBE SUCH ENTITY.  NO OTHER ENTI-
TY SHALL USE SUCH TERMS, UNLESS IT IS AUTHORIZED BY OR ASSOCIATED WITH A
FIRE DEPARTMENT, FIRE DISTRICT OR MUNICIPALITY.
  (B) NOTHING IN THIS CHAPTER SHALL PRECLUDE  ANY  ENTITY  IN  EXISTENCE
PRIOR  TO APRIL FIRST, TWO THOUSAND TEN AND ORGANIZED UNDER THIS CHAPTER
OR ITS PREDECESSOR ARTICLES, FOR PURPOSES SIMILAR TO THOSE IN  PARAGRAPH
(A)  OF  THIS  SECTION  AND  OPERATING  AS OF THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF THIS

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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SECTION WITH SUCH PURPOSES AND UNDER THE NAME OF  A  FIRE  PATROL,  FROM
HOLDING  ITSELF  OUT  AS  A  FIRE PATROL AS THAT TERM IS DEFINED IN THIS
SECTION.
  (C)  FIRE PATROLS, IN THE EXECUTION OF ITS PURPOSES, INCLUDING BUT NOT
LIMITED TO ASSISTING FIRE DEPARTMENTS OR OTHER PUBLIC  AGENCIES  IN  THE
COURSE  OF  THEIR  RESPECTIVE  DUTIES, SHALL HAVE THE POWER TO ENTER ANY
BUILDING ON FIRE OR WHICH MAY BE EXPOSED TO OR  IN  DANGER  OF  LOSS  OR
DAMAGE BY FIRE, SMOKE OR WATER, OR IN WHICH PROPERTY MAY BE IN DANGER OF
LOSS OR DAMAGE FROM FIRE, SMOKE OR WATER, AND TO PROTECT AND ENDEAVOR TO
SAVE  THE  PROPERTY THEREIN AND, WHEN NECESSARY, TO REMOVE SUCH PROPERTY
OR ANY PART THEREOF; PROVIDED, HOWEVER,  THAT  THE  PROVISIONS  OF  THIS
PARAGRAPH  SHALL  NOT  WARRANT  ANY INTERFERENCE WITH THE ACTIONS OF THE
MEMBERS OF THE FIRE DEPARTMENT OR PUBLIC AGENCY TO WHICH THE FIRE PATROL
IS RENDERING ASSISTANCE, AND THE FIRE PATROL SHALL IN ALL  RESPECTS  AND
AT  ALL  TIMES  WHEN RENDERING ASSISTANCE TO A FIRE DEPARTMENT OR PUBLIC
AGENCY SHALL BE SUBORDINATE TO AND UNDER THE CONTROL OF THE FIRE DEPART-
MENT OR PUBLIC AGENCY TO WHICH ASSISTANCE IS RENDERED.
  (D) ANY VEHICLE AFFILIATED WITH A FIRE PATROL SHALL BE DEEMED TO BE  A
FIRE VEHICLE AND THEREBY AN EMERGENCY VEHICLE AS DEFINED IN SECTIONS ONE
HUNDRED ONE AND ONE HUNDRED FIFTEEN-A OF THE VEHICLE AND TRAFFIC LAW AND
GOVERNED  BY  SECTION  ELEVEN  HUNDRED FOUR OF SUCH LAW. THE VEHICLES OF
SUCH FIRE PATROL SHALL ALSO BE DEEMED TO BE EMERGENCY VEHICLES  FOR  THE
PURPOSES  OF  SECTION  TWO  THOUSAND  THREE HUNDRED THIRTY-FIVE-A OF THE
INSURANCE LAW.
  S 2. Section 101 of the vehicle and traffic law, as amended by chapter
446 of the laws of 2003, is amended to read as follows:
  S 101. Authorized emergency vehicle. Every ambulance,  police  vehicle
or bicycle, correction vehicle, fire vehicle, FIRE PATROL VEHICLE, civil
defense  emergency  vehicle,  emergency ambulance service vehicle, blood
delivery vehicle, county emergency medical  services  vehicle,  environ-
mental  emergency response vehicle, sanitation patrol vehicle, hazardous
materials emergency vehicle and ordnance disposal vehicle of  the  armed
forces of the United States.
  S 3. The opening paragraph of section 115-a of the vehicle and traffic
law,  as  amended by chapter 176 of the laws of 1973, is amended to read
as follows:
  Every vehicle operated for fire service purposes owned and  identified
as  being  owned by the state, a public authority, a county, town, city,
village  or  fire  district,  or  a  fire  corporation  subject  to  the
provisions  of  [subdivision]  PARAGRAPH (e) of section fourteen hundred
two of the not-for-profit  corporation  law  [or],  a  fire  company  as
defined  in  section  one hundred of the general municipal law OR A FIRE
PATROL AS DEFINED IN PARAGRAPH (A) OF SECTION FOURTEEN HUNDRED  THIRTEEN
OF  THE  NOT-FOR-PROFIT CORPORATION LAW.   Any of the following vehicles
shall be fire vehicles only for the purpose of section one  hundred  one
of this [chapter] ARTICLE:
  S 4. This act shall take effect immediately.

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

                                 8117--C

                       2011-2012 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              June 2, 2011
                               ___________

Introduced  by  M.  of A. CUSICK, TOBACCO, MALLIOTAKIS, TITONE -- Multi-
  Sponsored by -- M. of A. O'DONNELL -- read once and  referred  to  the
  Committee  on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions -- recommitted
  to the Committee  on  Corporations,  Authorities  and  Commissions  in
  accordance  with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill
  amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said  commit-
  tee  --  again  reported  from said committee with amendments, ordered
  reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee -- reported and
  referred to the Committee  on  Codes  --  committee  discharged,  bill
  amended,  ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
  tee

AN ACT to amend the not-for-profit corporation law and the  vehicle  and
  traffic law, in relation to the operation of fire patrols; and provid-
  ing for the repeal of such provisions upon expiration thereof

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

  Section 1. The not-for-profit corporation law is amended by  adding  a
new section 1413 to read as follows:
S 1413. FIRE PATROLS.
  (A)  ANY ORGANIZATION INCORPORATED IN A CITY OF ONE MILLION OR MORE ON
OR AFTER APRIL FIRST, TWO  THOUSAND  TEN  UNDER  THIS  CHAPTER  FOR  THE
PURPOSES  OF PROTECTING LIFE AND PROPERTY THROUGH THE SAFE AND EFFICIENT
MEANS OF MODERN SALVAGE AND PROPERTY DAMAGE  MITIGATION  TECHNIQUES,  OF
SAVING OR REDUCING THE LOSS OF PROPERTY EXPOSED TO WATER, SMOKE OR GASS-
ES,  AND THEREBY REDUCING LOSSES TO PROPERTY OWNERS, AND OF OTHER PUBLIC
BENEFITS, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO  ASSISTING  FIRE  DEPARTMENTS  OR
OTHER PUBLIC AGENCIES IN THE COURSE OF THEIR RESPECTIVE DUTIES WHEN DULY
AUTHORIZED THEREBY, SHALL BE GOVERNED BY THIS CHAPTER AND SHALL BE KNOWN
AS AND MAY USE THE TERM "FIRE PATROL" OR "FIRE PATROLS" TO DESCRIBE SUCH
ENTITY.    NO OTHER ENTITY SHALL USE SUCH TERMS, UNLESS IT IS AUTHORIZED
BY OR ASSOCIATED WITH A FIRE DEPARTMENT, FIRE DISTRICT OR MUNICIPALITY.
  (B) NOTHING IN THIS CHAPTER SHALL PRECLUDE  ANY  ENTITY  IN  EXISTENCE
PRIOR  TO APRIL FIRST, TWO THOUSAND TEN AND ORGANIZED UNDER THIS CHAPTER
OR ITS PREDECESSOR ARTICLES, FOR PURPOSES SIMILAR TO THOSE IN  PARAGRAPH

              

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD11834-08-2

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(A)  OF  THIS  SECTION  AND  OPERATING  AS OF THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF THIS
SECTION WITH SUCH PURPOSES AND UNDER THE NAME OF  A  FIRE  PATROL,  FROM
HOLDING  ITSELF  OUT  AS  A  FIRE PATROL AS THAT TERM IS DEFINED IN THIS
SECTION.
  (C)  FIRE PATROLS, IN THE EXECUTION OF ITS PURPOSES, INCLUDING BUT NOT
LIMITED TO ASSISTING FIRE DEPARTMENTS OR OTHER PUBLIC  AGENCIES  IN  THE
COURSE  OF  THEIR  RESPECTIVE  DUTIES, SHALL HAVE THE POWER TO ENTER ANY
BUILDING ON FIRE OR WHICH MAY BE EXPOSED TO OR  IN  DANGER  OF  LOSS  OR
DAMAGE BY FIRE, SMOKE OR WATER, OR IN WHICH PROPERTY MAY BE IN DANGER OF
LOSS OR DAMAGE FROM FIRE, SMOKE OR WATER, AND TO PROTECT AND ENDEAVOR TO
SAVE  THE  PROPERTY THEREIN AND, WHEN NECESSARY, TO REMOVE SUCH PROPERTY
OR ANY PART THEREOF; PROVIDED, HOWEVER,  THAT  THE  PROVISIONS  OF  THIS
PARAGRAPH  SHALL  NOT  WARRANT  ANY INTERFERENCE WITH THE ACTIONS OF THE
MEMBERS OF THE FIRE DEPARTMENT OR PUBLIC AGENCY TO WHICH THE FIRE PATROL
IS RENDERING ASSISTANCE, AND THE FIRE PATROL SHALL IN ALL  RESPECTS  AND
AT  ALL  TIMES  WHEN RENDERING ASSISTANCE TO A FIRE DEPARTMENT OR PUBLIC
AGENCY SHALL BE SUBORDINATE TO AND UNDER THE CONTROL OF THE FIRE DEPART-
MENT OR PUBLIC AGENCY TO WHICH ASSISTANCE IS RENDERED; PROVIDED  FURTHER
THAT  ANY FIRE PATROL THAT OPERATES WITHIN A CITY OF ONE MILLION OR MORE
SHALL BE LIMITED IN ITS RESPONSE AUTHORITY TO  SAID  CITY,  BUT  NOTHING
HEREIN  SHALL  LIMIT OR PROHIBIT THE FIRE PATROL SO OPERATING TO CONDUCT
EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS OR OTHER NON-RESPONSE  ACTIVITIES  CONSISTENT  WITH
ITS MISSION AND STANDING AS A DULY ORGANIZED AND RECOGNIZED NOT-FOR-PRO-
FIT CORPORATION IN ANY OTHER PART OF THE STATE IN ADDITION TO SAID CITY.
  (D)  ANY VEHICLE AFFILIATED WITH A FIRE PATROL SHALL BE DEEMED TO BE A
FIRE VEHICLE AND THEREBY AN EMERGENCY VEHICLE AS DEFINED IN SECTIONS ONE
HUNDRED ONE AND ONE HUNDRED FIFTEEN-A OF THE VEHICLE AND TRAFFIC LAW AND
GOVERNED BY SECTION ELEVEN HUNDRED FOUR OF SUCH  LAW.  THE  VEHICLES  OF
SUCH  FIRE  PATROL SHALL ALSO BE DEEMED TO BE EMERGENCY VEHICLES FOR THE
PURPOSES OF SECTION TWO THOUSAND  THREE  HUNDRED  THIRTY-FIVE-A  OF  THE
INSURANCE LAW.
  S 2. Section 101 of the vehicle and traffic law, as amended by chapter
446 of the laws of 2003, is amended to read as follows:
  S  101.  Authorized emergency vehicle. Every ambulance, police vehicle
or bicycle, correction vehicle, fire vehicle, FIRE PATROL VEHICLE, civil
defense emergency vehicle, emergency ambulance  service  vehicle,  blood
delivery  vehicle,  county  emergency medical services vehicle, environ-
mental emergency response vehicle, sanitation patrol vehicle,  hazardous
materials  emergency  vehicle and ordnance disposal vehicle of the armed
forces of the United States.
  S 3. The opening paragraph of section 115-a of the vehicle and traffic
law, as amended by chapter 176 of the laws of 1973, is amended  to  read
as follows:
  Every  vehicle operated for fire service purposes owned and identified
as being owned by the state, a public authority, a county,  town,  city,
village  or  fire  district,  or  a  fire  corporation  subject  to  the
provisions of [subdivision] PARAGRAPH (e) of  section  fourteen  hundred
two  of  the  not-for-profit  corporation  law  [or],  a fire company as
defined in section one hundred of the general municipal law  OR  A  FIRE
PATROL  AS DEFINED IN PARAGRAPH (A) OF SECTION FOURTEEN HUNDRED THIRTEEN
OF THE NOT-FOR-PROFIT CORPORATION LAW.   Any of the  following  vehicles
shall  be  fire vehicles only for the purpose of section one hundred one
of this [chapter] ARTICLE:
  S 4. This act shall take effect immediately and shall  expire  and  be
deemed repealed 5 years after such date.