S04715 Summary:
| BILL NO | S04715 |
| SAME AS | SAME AS A07828 |
| SPONSOR | DIAZ |
| COSPNSR | HASSELL-THOMPSON |
| MLTSPNSR | |
| Add S50-o, Gen Muni L | |
| Provides that a municipality shall be liable for the negligence or misconduct of emergency medical services employees. | |
S04715 Actions:
| BILL NO | S04715 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 04/10/2015 | REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 01/06/2016 | REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Go to topSTATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4715 2015-2016 Regular Sessions IN SENATE April 10, 2015 ___________ Introduced by Sen. DIAZ -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government AN ACT to amend the general municipal law, in relation to the liability of a municipality for the negligence of their employees in certain circumstances The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as "Ariel's law". 2 § 2. The general municipal law is amended by adding a new section 50-o 3 to read as follows: 4 § 50-o. Liability for emergency services employees. A municipality 5 that provides emergency medical services to its citizens shall be liable 6 for any damages caused to a citizen that result from the municipality's 7 emergency services employee's negligence or misconduct, including any 8 unnecessary delay in the provision of such emergency services to the 9 injured citizen. 10 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD10423-01-5