Assembly Bill A1728

                             
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                                   1728
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 14, 2025
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 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  ROSENTHAL  --  read once and referred to the
   Committee on Cities
 
 AN ACT to amend the administrative code of the  city  of  New  York,  in
   relation  to  requiring  alternating  high  and  low, two-toned signal
   devices on emergency services vehicles

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision  (b)  of section 24-241 of the administrative
 code of the city of New York, as added by local law number  113  of  the
 city of New York for the year 2005, is amended to read as follows:
   (b)  No  person  shall  operate  or permit to be operated an emergency
 signal device installed on an authorized emergency vehicle  [that  when]
 UNLESS:
   1.  WHEN  operated  at  the maximum level SUCH EMERGENCY SIGNAL DEVICE
 creates a sound level [in excess of] THAT DOES NOT EXCEED 90 dB(A)  when
 measured at a distance of fifty feet from the center of the forward face
 of such vehicle[.]; AND
   2.  SUCH EMERGENCY SIGNAL DEVICE PRODUCES AN ALTERNATING HIGH AND LOW,
 TWO-TONED SOUND IN ACCORDANCE WITH IMPLEMENTATION STANDARDS  ESTABLISHED
 BY THE DEPARTMENT.
   (C)  Within  one year after the effective date of this subdivision and
 every two  years  thereafter,  emergency  signal  devices  installed  on
 authorized emergency vehicles shall be tested and certification shall be
 submitted,  in a form approved by the department, that such devices meet
 the [standard] STANDARDS set forth in [this]  subdivision  (B)  OF  THIS
 SECTION  for operation at maximum level AND WITH AN ALTERNATING HIGH AND
 LOW TWO-TONED SOUND. Notwithstanding  the  foregoing  provisions,  where
 compliance with the provisions of [this] subdivision (B) OF THIS SECTION
 would  create  an undue hardship, the owner or operator of an authorized
 emergency vehicle may submit a plan to the  commissioner  for  emergency
 signal  devices  to  meet  the  [standard] STANDARDS set forth in [this]
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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 subdivision (B) OF THIS SECTION within two  years  after  the  effective
 date  of  this subdivision. Such plan shall be submitted within one year
 after the effective date of this subdivision in  lieu  of  the  required
 certification. [This subdivision shall not apply to authorized emergency
 vehicles  of  the police department, fire department or authorized emer-
 gency vehicles responding to medical emergencies.]
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
 it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition,  amend-
 ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
 tation  of  this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and
 completed on or before such effective date.