Outlines when certain vehicles shall be considered an emergency ambulance service vehicle; provides that every vehicle operated for emergency medical service purposes owned by an entity or agency of the state, a public authority, a county, town, city or village certified pursuant to section three thousand five of the public health law to operate an ambulance or advance life support first response service, for the purposes of section one hundred one of the vehicle and traffic law shall be considered an emergency ambulance service vehicle.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5598
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
June 6, 2011
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Introduced by Sen. FUSCHILLO -- 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 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 motor
5 vehicle owned or operated by an ambulance service as defined in section
6 three thousand one of the public health law and used for the purpose of
7 transporting emergency medical personnel and equipment to sick or
8 injured persons. Provided however, that every vehicle operated for emer-
9 gency medical service purposes owned by an entity or agency of the
10 state, a public authority, a county, town, city or village certified
11 pursuant to section three thousand five of the public health law to
12 operate an ambulance or advance life support first response service,
13 when operated in an official capacity by or under the direction of a
14 supervisory officer or the medical director of such entity or agency
15 shall be considered an emergency ambulance service vehicle for the
16 purposes of section one hundred one of this article.
17 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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