Senate Bill S10237

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                   10237
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                May 7, 2026
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 Introduced  by Sen. BOTTCHER -- 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 enacting the
   "who you gonna call? act"
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section  1.  This  act shall be known and may be cited as the "who you
 gonna call? act".
   § 2. 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,  VEHICLE OF THE OFFICE OF CHIEF MEDICAL
 EXAMINER OF THE CITY OF NEW  YORK,  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.
   § 3. Section 114-b of the vehicle and traffic law, as amended by chap-
 ter 496 of the laws of 2021, is amended to read as follows:
   § 114-b. Emergency operation. The operation, or parking, of an author-
 ized  emergency  vehicle, when such vehicle is engaged in transporting a
 sick or injured person,  transporting  prisoners,  delivering  blood  or
 blood  products in a situation involving an imminent health risk, trans-
 porting human organs and/or medical personnel for the purpose  of  organ
 recovery  or transplantation in a situation involving an imminent health
 risk where undue delay would jeopardize such  recovery  or  transplanta-
 tion, INVESTIGATING, TRANSPORTING OR REMOVING DECEASED PERSONS, SUPPORT-
 ING  MASS-FATALITY OR DECEDENT-REMOVAL OPERATIONS, pursuing an actual or
 suspected violator of the law, or responding to, or working or assisting
 at the scene of an accident, disaster, police call, alarm of fire, actu-
 al or potential release of  hazardous  materials,  ACTUAL  OR  POTENTIAL
 SCENE  WHERE  THE  NEW YORK CITY OFFICE OF CHIEF MEDICAL EXAMINER HAS AN
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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 OFFICIAL ROLE, or other emergency. Emergency operation shall not include
 returning from such service.
   § 4. Subparagraph b of paragraph 4 of subdivision 41 of section 375 of
 the  vehicle  and  traffic law, as amended by chapter 143 of the laws of
 2011, is amended to read as follows:
   b. In addition to the red and white lights authorized to be  displayed
 pursuant  to  paragraph two of this subdivision, one or more blue lights
 or combination blue and red lights or combination blue,  red  and  white
 lights  may  be  affixed  to  a police vehicle, fire vehicle, ambulance,
 emergency ambulance service vehicle, VEHICLE  OF  THE  OFFICE  OF  CHIEF
 MEDICAL  EXAMINER  OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK, and county emergency medical
 services vehicle provided that  such  blue  light  or  lights  shall  be
 displayed  on a police vehicle, fire vehicle, ambulance, emergency ambu-
 lance service vehicle, VEHICLE OF THE OFFICE OF CHIEF  MEDICAL  EXAMINER
 OF  THE  CITY OF NEW YORK, and county emergency medical services vehicle
 for rear projection only. In the event that the trunk or rear gate of  a
 police  vehicle,  fire  vehicle,  ambulance, emergency ambulance service
 vehicle, VEHICLE OF THE OFFICE OF CHIEF MEDICAL EXAMINER OF THE CITY  OF
 NEW  YORK,  and  county  emergency medical services vehicle obstructs or
 diminishes the visibility of other emergency lighting on such  vehicles,
 a  blue  light may be affixed to and displayed from the trunk, rear gate
 or interior of such vehicles. Such lights may be displayed on  a  police
 vehicle,  fire  vehicle, ambulance, emergency ambulance service vehicle,
 VEHICLE OF THE OFFICE OF CHIEF MEDICAL EXAMINER OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK,
 and county emergency medical services vehicle  when  such  vehicles  are
 engaged  in  an  emergency operation. Nothing contained in this subpara-
 graph shall be deemed to authorize the use  of  blue  lights  on  police
 vehicles,  fire  vehicles, ambulances, emergency ambulance service vehi-
 cles, VEHICLE OF THE OFFICE OF CHIEF MEDICAL EXAMINER OF THE CITY OF NEW
 YORK, and county emergency medical services vehicles unless  such  vehi-
 cles also display one or more red or combination red and white lights as
 otherwise authorized in this subdivision.
   § 5. This act shall take effect immediately.