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                                  6835--A
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              March 21, 2019
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 Introduced  by  M. of A. CRESPO, McDONALD, STIRPE, ORTIZ, BUTTENSCHON --
   Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. FITZPATRICK -- read once  and  referred
   to  the  Committee  on  Transportation  --  committee discharged, bill
   amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said  commit-
   tee

 AN  ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to authorizing
   licensed podiatrists to certify a temporary disability for purposes of
   issuance of special vehicle identification parking permits to  persons
   temporarily unable to ambulate without the aid of an assisting device
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Paragraph (i) of subdivision 1 and subdivision 3 of section
 1203-a of the vehicle and traffic law, paragraph (i) of subdivision 1 as
 amended by chapter 180 of the laws of 1996 and subdivision 3 as  amended
 by  chapter  220  of the laws of 1984, are amended and a new subdivision
 1-a is added to read as follows:
   (i) any resident of New York state who is a severely disabled  person,
 as defined in subdivision [three] FOUR of section four hundred four-a of
 this chapter, upon application of such person or such person's parent or
 guardian,  provided,  however, that an issuing agent shall issue permits
 only to residents of the city, town or village  in  which  such  issuing
 agent  is  located,  except  that,  an  issuing  agent,  in  his  or her
 discretion, may issue a permit to a severely disabled person who is  not
 a  resident of the city, town, or village in which such issuing agent is
 located where such person resides in a city, town, or village  in  which
 the  governing  body  has not appointed an issuing agent; and an issuing
 agent, in his or her discretion, may issue a temporary  special  vehicle
 identification  parking  permit,  as  authorized by subdivision three of
 this section, to a person who is temporarily unable to ambulate  without
 the aid of an assisting device, as certified by a physician OR, PURSUANT
 TO  SUBDIVISION  ONE-A  OF  THIS  SECTION, A PODIATRIST DULY LICENSED TO
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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 PRACTICE PODIATRY IN THIS STATE, who resides in a city, town, or village
 in which the issuing agent does  not  issue  temporary  special  vehicle
 identification  parking  permits, or who is not a resident of the United
 States and is temporarily visiting the state; or
   1-A.  IN  CERTIFYING A TEMPORARY INABILITY TO AMBULATE WITHOUT THE AID
 OF AN ASSISTING DEVICE, A PODIATRIST DULY LICENSED TO PRACTICE  PODIATRY
 IN  THIS  STATE MAY CERTIFY ONLY THOSE CONDITIONS WHICH HE OR SHE TREATS
 IN THE COURSE OF THE PRACTICE OF PODIATRY, AS DEFINED BY  SECTION  SEVEN
 THOUSAND ONE OF THE EDUCATION LAW.
   3.  Notwithstanding any provision of this chapter to the contrary, any
 municipality may issue a temporary special vehicle identification  park-
 ing  permit  to any person who is temporarily unable to ambulate without
 the aid of an assisting device, as certified by a physician OR, PURSUANT
 TO SUBDIVISION ONE-A OF THIS SECTION,  A  PODIATRIST  DULY  LICENSED  TO
 PRACTICE  PODIATRY  IN THIS STATE.  Such temporary special vehicle iden-
 tification parking permit shall be valid for not more  than  six  months
 and shall be recognized statewide.
   §  2.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
 have become a law.