Assembly Bill A1274

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Relates to authorizing chief executives to designate any vehicle as an emergency vehicle during a state of emergency

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  • 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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2021-A1274 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S5264
Current Committee:
Assembly Governmental Operations
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §101, V & T L; amd §24, Exec L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2015-2016: A8651, S6269
2017-2018: A4556, A8972, S2924
2019-2020: A7447, S1362
2023-2024: A225

2021-A1274 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to authorizing chief executives to designate any vehicle as an emergency vehicle during a state of emergency.

2021-A1274 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1274
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              January 8, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. MAGNARELLI, PICHARDO, LUPARDO, GOTTFRIED, LAVINE,
   J. RIVERA,  BICHOTTE HERMELYN, JONES -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.
   BRAUNSTEIN, SIMON, THIELE -- 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:
   § 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.
   §  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;
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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