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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.