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                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                             January 7, 2016
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Introduced by M. of A. KEARNS -- read once and referred to the Committee
  on Governmental Operations

AN  ACT  to  amend the vehicle and traffic law and the executive law, in
  relation to authorizing chief executives to designate any  vehicle  as
  an  emergency  vehicle during a declaration of a disaster emergency by
  executive action or local state of emergency

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

  Section  1.  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, civil defense emergency
vehicle, emergency ambulance service vehicle,  blood  delivery  vehicle,
county  emergency  medical  services  vehicle,  environmental  emergency
response vehicle, sanitation patrol vehicle, hazardous  materials  emer-
gency  vehicle  and ordnance disposal vehicle of the armed forces of the
United States AND ANY VEHICLE A CHIEF EXECUTIVE, AS DEFINED PURSUANT  TO
SECTION  TWENTY OF THE EXECUTIVE LAW, AUTHORIZES AS AN EMERGENCY VEHICLE
DURING THE GOVERNOR'S DECLARATION OF A DISASTER EMERGENCY  BY  EXECUTIVE
ACTION  PURSUANT TO SECTION TWENTY-EIGHT OF THE EXECUTIVE LAW OR A LOCAL
STATE OF EMERGENCY AS DEFINED PURSUANT TO  SECTION  TWENTY-FOUR  OF  THE
EXECUTIVE LAW.
  S  2. Paragraph a of subdivision 1 of section 24 of the executive law,
as added by chapter 640 of the laws of  1978,  is  amended  to  read  as
follows:
  a.  the  establishment  of a curfew and the prohibition and control of
pedestrian and vehicular traffic, except essential  [emergency  vehicles
and  personnel]  AUTHORIZED  EMERGENCY  VEHICLES  AS DEFINED PURSUANT TO
SECTION ONE HUNDRED ONE OF THE VEHICLE AND TRAFFIC LAW;
  S 3. Paragraph g of subdivision 1 of section 24 of the executive  law,
as  relettered  by  chapter 158 of the laws of 1994, is relettered para-
graph h and a new paragraph g is added to read as follows:
  G. THE DESIGNATION OF ANY VEHICLE AS AN AUTHORIZED EMERGENCY VEHICLE;
  S 4. 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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