Bill Text: NY A02701 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to excepting certain persons or entities from indemnity bonds or insurance policy requirements when renting or leasing rental vehicles to film or television production companies; provides that rental car companies are not subject to certain corporate surety bond or liability insurance coverage requirements when renting to a film or television production company when such production company purchases insurance that complies with surety bond or insurance requirements.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to transportation [A02701 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A02701-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2701
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 25, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced by M. of A. LENTOL -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Transportation
        AN  ACT  to  amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to excepting
          certain persons or entities from indemnity bonds or  insurance  policy
          requirements  when renting or leasing rental vehicles to film or tele-
          vision production companies
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  The  opening paragraph of subdivision 3 of section 370 of
     2  the vehicle and traffic law, as amended by chapter 232 of  the  laws  of
     3  2001, is amended to read as follows:
     4    A  person, firm, association or corporation engaged in the business of
     5  renting or leasing rental vehicles to be operated upon the public  high-
     6  ways  for carrying passengers shall be subject to the provisions of this
     7  section in the same manner and to the same extent  as  if  such  person,
     8  firm,  association  or corporation were actually engaged in the business
     9  of carrying or transporting passengers for hire; provided, however,  any
    10  person,  firm,  association  or  corporation  engaged in the business of
    11  renting or leasing rental vehicles to any film or television  production
    12  company  shall  not be subject to the corporate surety bond or liability
    13  insurance coverage requirements of this section, provided  such  person,
    14  firm,  association  or  corporation files with the commissioner of motor
    15  vehicles, in such form as the commissioner may prescribe, evidence  that
    16  such  film  or  television  production company has purchased a policy of
    17  insurance on such rented or leased rental vehicles  that  complies  with
    18  the  requirements  of  this  section.  For the purposes of this section,
    19  "film or television production company" means  a  corporation,  partner-
    20  ship, limited partnership, or other entity or individual which or who is
    21  principally  engaged  in  the production of a feature-length film, tele-
    22  vision film, television  pilot  and/or  each  episode  of  a  television
    23  series,  regardless  of  the medium by means of which the film, pilot or
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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        A. 2701                             2
     1  episode is created or conveyed, and controls the film, pilot or  episode
     2  during production.
     3    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
     4  have become a law; provided, however, that  effective  immediately,  the
     5  addition,  amendment  and/or  repeal of any rule or regulation necessary
     6  for the implementation of this act on its effective date are  authorized
     7  and directed to be made and completed on or before such effective date.