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                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 4, 2023
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 Introduced  by  M. of A. MAGNARELLI, LUPARDO, LAVINE, BICHOTTE HERMELYN,
   JONES -- read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Oper-
   ations
 
 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 496 of the laws of 2021, 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,
 human organ delivery vehicle, county emergency medical services vehicle,
 environmental emergency response  vehicle,  sanitation  patrol  vehicle,
 hazardous  materials  emergency 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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   §  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;
   § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.