S03532 Summary:

BILL NOS03532A
 
SAME ASSAME AS A00811-A
 
SPONSORKENNEDY
 
COSPNSRBORRELLO, GALLIVAN, HINCHEY, SKOUFIS, STEC
 
MLTSPNSR
 
Amd §§375 & 1144-a, V & T L
 
Allows for the use of green lights or alternating green and amber lights on municipal vehicles being used for snow removal; relates to the operation of vehicles when approaching such a parked, stopped or standing hazard vehicle.
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S03532 Actions:

BILL NOS03532A
 
01/30/2021REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION
05/10/2021AMEND (T) AND RECOMMIT TO TRANSPORTATION
05/10/2021PRINT NUMBER 3532A
01/05/2022REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION
06/01/2022COMMITTEE DISCHARGED AND COMMITTED TO RULES
06/01/2022ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.1746
06/01/2022SUBSTITUTED BY A811A
 A00811 AMEND=A Wallace
 01/06/2021referred to transportation
 04/27/2021amend (t) and recommit to transportation
 04/27/2021print number 811a
 05/11/2021reported referred to codes
 05/19/2021reported referred to rules
 05/24/2021reported
 05/24/2021rules report cal.71
 05/24/2021ordered to third reading rules cal.71
 05/24/2021passed assembly
 05/24/2021delivered to senate
 05/24/2021REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION
 01/05/2022DIED IN SENATE
 01/05/2022RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY
 01/05/2022ordered to third reading cal.51
 01/12/2022passed assembly
 01/12/2022delivered to senate
 01/12/2022REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION
 06/01/2022SUBSTITUTED FOR S3532A
 06/01/20223RD READING CAL.1746
 06/01/2022PASSED SENATE
 06/01/2022RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY
 08/05/2022delivered to governor
 08/17/2022signed chap.504
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S03532 Committee Votes:

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S03532 Floor Votes:

There are no votes for this bill in this legislative session.
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S03532 Text:



 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                         3532--A
 
                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                    January 30, 2021
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced by Sens. KENNEDY, GALLIVAN, SKOUFIS -- read twice and ordered
          printed,  and  when printed to be committed to the Committee on Trans-
          portation -- 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 the use of
          green lights on municipal hazard vehicles designed for  ice  and  snow
          removal  and in relation to the operation of vehicles when approaching
          such a parked, stopped or standing hazard vehicle
 
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section 1. Paragraph 5 of subdivision 41 of section 375 of the vehicle
     2  and  traffic law, as added by chapter 197 of the laws of 1970, the open-
     3  ing paragraph as amended by chapter 349 of the laws of 2004, is  amended
     4  to read as follows:
     5    5.  Green light. (a) One green light may be affixed to any motor vehi-
     6  cle owned by a member of a volunteer ambulance service, or  on  a  motor
     7  vehicle  owned  by  a  member  of such person's family, or by a business
     8  enterprise in which such person has a proprietary interest or  by  which
     9  he  is  employed, provided such member has been authorized in writing to
    10  so affix a green light by the chief officer of such  service  as  desig-
    11  nated  by  the members thereof. Such green light may be displayed exclu-
    12  sively by such member of a volunteer ambulance service only when engaged
    13  in an emergency operation. The use of green lights on vehicles shall  be
    14  restricted  for use only by a member of a volunteer ambulance service as
    15  provided for in this paragraph  except  as  otherwise  provided  for  in
    16  subparagraph c of this paragraph.
    17    (b)  As used in this paragraph volunteer ambulance service means: [a.]
    18  (i) a non-profit membership corporation (other than a fire  corporation)
    19  incorporated under or subject to the provisions of the membership corpo-
    20  rations  law, or any other law, operating its ambulance or ambulances on
    21  a non-profit basis for the convenience of the members thereof and  their
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02241-03-1

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     1  families  or  of  the community or under a contract with a county, city,
     2  town or village pursuant to section  one  hundred  twenty-two-b  of  the
     3  general municipal law; or
     4    [b.] (ii) an unincorporated association of persons operating its ambu-
     5  lance  or  ambulances  on  a non-profit basis for the convenience of the
     6  members and their families or of the community.
     7    (c)(i) In addition to the  amber  light  authorized  to  be  displayed
     8  pursuant  to  paragraph  three  of  this  subdivision, one or more green
     9  lights or combination green and amber lights may be affixed to a  hazard
    10  vehicle  designed  for  ice  and  snow removal owned and operated by the
    11  state or by a county, city, town or village. Such green light or  lights
    12  may  be  displayed on a hazard vehicle designed for ice and snow removal
    13  owned and operated by the state or by a county, city,  town  or  village
    14  when  such  vehicle  is  engaged  in  a  hazardous operation and is also
    15  displaying the amber light or lights required to be displayed  during  a
    16  hazardous  operation  pursuant  to  paragraph three of this subdivision.
    17  Nothing contained in this subparagraph shall be deemed to authorize  the
    18  use of green lights on hazard vehicles designed for ice and snow removal
    19  owned  and  operated  by the state or by a county, city, town or village
    20  unless such hazard vehicles also display one or  more  amber  lights  as
    21  otherwise authorized in this subdivision.
    22    (ii)  The  commissioner  is  authorized  to promulgate rules and regu-
    23  lations relating to the use,  placement,  power  and  display  of  green
    24  lights  on  a hazard vehicle designed for ice and snow removal owned and
    25  operated by the state or by a county, city, town or village.
    26    § 2. Subdivision (b) of section 1144-a of the vehicle and traffic law,
    27  as amended by section 3 of part C of chapter 58 of the laws of 2020,  is
    28  amended to read as follows:
    29    (b) Every operator of a motor vehicle shall exercise due care to avoid
    30  colliding  with a hazard vehicle which is parked, stopped or standing on
    31  the shoulder or on any portion of such highway and such  hazard  vehicle
    32  is  displaying  one  or  more amber lights pursuant to the provisions of
    33  paragraph three of subdivision forty-one of section three hundred seven-
    34  ty-five of this chapter or, if such hazard vehicle is designed  for  the
    35  towing or pushing of disabled vehicles such hazard vehicle is displaying
    36  one  or  more  amber  lights or one or more blue or combination blue and
    37  amber lights pursuant to the provisions of paragraph three  or  subpara-
    38  graph  b-1 of paragraph four, as applicable, of subdivision forty-one of
    39  section three hundred seventy-five of this chapter or,  if  such  hazard
    40  vehicle  owned  and  operated by the state or by a county, city, town or
    41  village is designed for the removal of ice and snow such hazard  vehicle
    42  is  displaying one or more amber lights or one or more green or combina-
    43  tion green and amber lights pursuant  to  the  provisions  of  paragraph
    44  three  or subparagraph (c) of paragraph five, as applicable, of subdivi-
    45  sion forty-one of section three hundred seventy-five  of  this  chapter.
    46  For  operators  of motor vehicles on parkways or controlled access high-
    47  ways, such due care shall include, but not be limited to, moving from  a
    48  lane which contains or is immediately adjacent to the shoulder where (i)
    49  such  hazard vehicle displaying one or more amber lights pursuant to the
    50  provisions of paragraph three of subdivision forty-one of section  three
    51  hundred  seventy-five  of  this  chapter  or  (ii)  such  hazard vehicle
    52  designed for the towing or pushing of disabled vehicles  displaying  one
    53  or  more  amber lights or one or more blue or combination blue and amber
    54  lights pursuant to the provisions of paragraph three or subparagraph b-1
    55  of paragraph four, as applicable, of subdivision  forty-one  of  section
    56  three  hundred seventy-five of this chapter or (iii) such hazard vehicle

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     1  owned and operated by the state or by a county, city, town or village is
     2  displaying one or more amber lights or one or more green or  combination
     3  green  and amber lights pursuant to the provisions of paragraph three or
     4  subparagraph  (c)  of  paragraph  five,  as  applicable,  of subdivision
     5  forty-one of section three hundred  seventy-five  of  this  chapter,  is
     6  parked, stopped or standing to another lane, provided that such movement
     7  otherwise  complies with the requirements of this chapter including, but
     8  not limited to, the provisions of sections eleven hundred ten and eleven
     9  hundred twenty-eight of this title.
    10    § 3. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
    11  have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
    12  repeal  of  any  rule  or regulation necessary for the implementation of
    13  this act on its effective date are authorized to be made  and  completed
    14  on or before such effective date.
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