Provides that certain vehicles owned or operated by an ambulance service shall be an emergency ambulance service vehicle when operated by the ambulance service operator or his or her designee in his or her official capacity.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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686--A
2013-2014 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY(Prefiled)
January 9, 2013
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Introduced by M. of A. SCHIMEL, LAVINE, GALEF, JAFFEE, KEARNS, MILLER,
HOOPER, WEISENBERG -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. COOK, FINCH,
GIBSON, MONTESANO, RA, RAIA -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Transportation -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to emergency
ambulance service vehicles
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 115-c of the vehicle and traffic law, as added by
2 chapter 142 of the laws of 1981, is amended to read as follows:
3 § 115-c. Emergency ambulance service vehicle. An emergency ambulance
4 service vehicle shall be defined as [an appropriately equipped] a motor
5 vehicle owned or operated by an ambulance service as defined in section
6 three thousand one of the public health law [and] that is:
7 1. used and appropriately equipped for the purpose of transporting
8 emergency medical personnel and equipment to sick or injured persons[.];
9 or
10 2. used by or under the direction of an ambulance service operator or
11 ambulance service supervisory or other personnel designated in writing
12 by the operator of the ambulance service as emergency response personnel
13 for the purpose of providing command, supervision or operational support
14 therefor. Such written designation shall be subject to revocation at any
15 time by the operator who certified such designation or his or her
16 successor in office. For the purposes of this subdivision, an emergency
17 ambulance service vehicle shall have the name of the ambulance service
18 conspicuously displayed on the vehicle and shall be considered an emer-
19 gency ambulance service vehicle only when operated by the ambulance
20 service operator, or his or her designee as certified in writing, in his
21 or her official capacity. A vehicle deemed an emergency ambulance
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 service vehicle under this subdivision shall not be used for the trans-
2 port of sick or injured persons and shall not be subject to regulation
3 by the department of health.
4 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
