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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                         8524--C
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                      March 8, 2022
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by Sen. HARCKHAM -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation --  commit-
          tee  discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recom-
          mitted to  said  committee  --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended,
          ordered  reprinted  as  amended  and  recommitted to said committee --
          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 display
          of green lights on the vehicles of members of mobile crisis teams
 
          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. One green light may be affixed to  any  motor  vehicle
     6  owned  by  a member of a volunteer ambulance service or by a member of a
     7  mobile crisis team, or on a motor vehicle owned  by  a  member  of  such
     8  person's  family, or by a business enterprise in which such person has a
     9  proprietary interest or by which he is employed, provided such member of
    10  a volunteer ambulance service has been authorized in writing to so affix
    11  a green light by the chief officer of such service as designated by  the
    12  members  thereof,  or  provided  such member of a mobile crisis team has
    13  been authorized in writing to so affix a green light by  the  office  of
    14  mental  health  or  the  office of addiction services and supports. Such
    15  green light may be displayed exclusively by such member of  a  volunteer
    16  ambulance  service,  or  a member of a deployed mobile crisis team, only
    17  when engaged in an emergency operation. The use of green lights on vehi-
    18  cles shall be restricted for use only by a member of a  volunteer  ambu-
    19  lance  service  or  a  member of a mobile crisis team as provided for in
    20  this paragraph.
    21    As used in this paragraph the following terms shall have the following
    22  meanings: a. "volunteer ambulance service" means: [a.] i.  a  non-profit
    23  membership  corporation  (other  than  a  fire corporation) incorporated
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14380-09-2
        S. 8524--C                          2
 
     1  under or subject to the provisions of the membership  corporations  law,
     2  or  any other law, operating its ambulance or ambulances on a non-profit
     3  basis for the convenience of the members thereof and their  families  or
     4  of  the  community  or  under  a  contract  with a county, city, town or
     5  village pursuant to section one  hundred  twenty-two-b  of  the  general
     6  municipal law; or
     7    [b.]  ii. an unincorporated association of persons operating its ambu-
     8  lance or ambulances on a non-profit basis for  the  convenience  of  the
     9  members and their families or of the community;
    10    b.  "mobile  crisis team" shall have the same meaning as mobile crisis
    11  teams as defined by paragraph eleven of subdivision (a) of section 36.03
    12  of the mental hygiene law; and
    13    c. office of mental  health  and  office  of  addiction  services  and
    14  supports  shall  mean  the  autonomous  offices  established  within the
    15  department of mental hygiene pursuant to  section  5.01  of  the  mental
    16  hygiene law.
    17    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    18  it shall have become a law.