Excludes certain amateur radio station operators from provisions of law relating to the use of portable electronic devices while operating a motor vehicle.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5674
2013-2014 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
June 3, 2013
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Introduced by Sen. MARTINS -- 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 excluding
certain amateur radio station operators from provisions of law relat-
ing to the use of portable electronic devices while operating a motor
vehicle
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 1225-d of the vehicle and traffic
2 law, as added by chapter 403 of the laws of 2009, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 3. Subdivision one of this section shall not apply to (a) the use of a
5 portable electronic device for the sole purpose of communicating with
6 any of the following regarding an emergency situation: an emergency
7 response operator; a hospital; a physician's office or health clinic; an
8 ambulance company or corps; a fire department, district or company; or a
9 police department, (b) any of the following persons while in the
10 performance of their official duties: a police officer or peace officer;
11 a member of a fire department, district or company; or the operator of
12 an authorized emergency vehicle as defined in section one hundred one of
13 this chapter, or (c) a driver who holds an unrevoked and unexpired offi-
14 cial amateur radio station license or operator's license issued by the
15 federal communications commission of the United States, using two-way or
16 citizens band radio services or two-way mobile radio transmitter or
17 receivers for licensees of the federal communications commission in the
18 amateur radio service during a governmentally declared emergency.
19 § 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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