Senate Bill S6166

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to equipping vehicles with radio devices

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Transportation Committee

  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2019-S6166 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §397, V & T L

2019-S6166 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to equipping vehicles with radio devices; provides that the prohibition against equipping a vehicle with radio receiving sets capable of receiving signals on police frequencies shall not apply to any person acting pursuant to their special duties who is a police officer, peace officer or employee of the division of homeland security and emergency services.

2019-S6166 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2019-S6166 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6166
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               May 21, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  BROOKS  -- (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 Transportation
 
 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:
 
   Section  1.  Section 397 of the vehicle and traffic law, as amended by
 chapter 843 of the laws of 1980, is amended to read as follows:
   § 397. Equipping motor vehicles with radio receiving sets  capable  of
 receiving  signals  on  the  frequencies  allocated  for police use.   A
 person[, not a police officer or peace officer, acting pursuant  to  his
 special  duties,]  who equips a motor vehicle with a radio receiving set
 capable of receiving signals on the frequencies allocated for police use
 or knowingly uses a motor vehicle so equipped or who in any way knowing-
 ly interferes with the transmission of  radio  messages  by  the  police
 without  having  first secured a permit so to do from the person author-
 ized to issue such a permit by the local governing body or board of  the
 city, town or village in which such person resides, or where such person
 resides  outside of a city or village in a county having a county police
 department by the board of supervisors of such county, is  guilty  of  a
 misdemeanor, punishable by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, or
 imprisonment  not exceeding six months, or both. Nothing in this section
 contained shall be construed to apply to any person who  holds  a  valid
 amateur  radio  operator's  license issued by the federal communications
 commission and who operates a duly licensed portable mobile  transmitter
 and  in  connection therewith a receiver or receiving set on frequencies
 exclusively allocated by the federal communications commission  to  duly
 licensed  radio  amateurs.  THIS  SECTION SHALL NOT APPLY TO ANY PERSON,
 ACTING PURSUANT TO THEIR SPECIAL DUTIES, WHO IS A POLICE OFFICER,  PEACE
 OFFICER,  OR EMPLOYEE OF THE DIVISION OF HOMELAND SECURITY AND EMERGENCY
 SERVICES.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

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