Bill Text: NY A04655 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Permits licensed physician, visiting nurse, nurse, physical therapist or chiropractor to park where parking is prohibited if vehicle is identified by special placard; permits such parking for a period not to exceed 1 hour while attending to a patient in the immediate vicinity.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-06 - referred to transportation [A04655 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A04655-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         4655
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   February 5, 2015
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       Introduced  by M. of A. COLTON -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. HOOPER,
         SCARBOROUGH -- read once and referred to the Committee on  Transporta-
         tion
       AN  ACT  to  amend  the  vehicle and traffic law, in relation to parking
         regulations
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Section 1203 of the vehicle and traffic law is amended by
    2  adding a new subdivision (e) to read as follows:
    3    (E) WHERE PARKING IS PROHIBITED BY SIGNS, BUT NOT  WHERE  STOPPING  OR
    4  STANDING IS PROHIBITED, A DULY LICENSED PHYSICIAN, VISITING NURSE, NURSE
    5  AS  DEFINED  IN  ARTICLE  ONE  HUNDRED THIRTY-NINE OF THE EDUCATION LAW,
    6  PHYSICAL THERAPIST OR CHIROPRACTOR MAY PARK HIS/HER MOTOR VEHICLE, IDEN-
    7  TIFIED BY A SPECIAL PLACARD  ISSUED  BY  THE  COMMISSIONER  PURSUANT  TO
    8  SECTION  FOUR HUNDRED FOUR-X OF THIS CHAPTER, FOR A PERIOD NOT TO EXCEED
    9  ONE HOUR WHILE ATTENDING TO A PATIENT IN THE IMMEDIATE VICINITY.
   10    S 2. The vehicle and traffic law is amended by adding  a  new  section
   11  404-x to read as follows:
   12    S 404-X. DISTINCTIVE PLACARD FOR LICENSED PHYSICIANS, VISITING NURSES,
   13  NURSES,  PHYSICAL  THERAPISTS  AND  CHIROPRACTORS.  1. ANY DULY LICENSED
   14  PHYSICIAN, VISITING NURSE, NURSE, PHYSICAL THERAPIST OR CHIROPRACTOR  IN
   15  THIS  STATE SHALL, UPON REQUEST, BE ISSUED A DISTINCTIVE PLACARD BEARING
   16  A UNIQUE SERIAL NUMBER IN SUCH FORM AND DETAIL AS THE COMMISSIONER SHALL
   17  PRESCRIBE. APPLICATION FOR SAID PLACARD SHALL BE FILED WITH THE  COMMIS-
   18  SIONER AND SHALL BE VERIFIED ANNUALLY BY THE APPLICANT.
   19    2.  THE  DISTINCTIVE  PLACARD  AUTHORIZED  IN  SUBDIVISION ONE OF THIS
   20  SECTION SHALL BE ISSUED UPON PROOF, SATISFACTORY  TO  THE  COMMISSIONER,
   21  THAT  THE  APPLICANT  IS  PRESENTLY  A DULY LICENSED PHYSICIAN, VISITING
   22  NURSE, NURSE, PHYSICAL THERAPIST OR CHIROPRACTOR.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD04916-01-5
       A. 4655                             2
    1    3. A DISTINCTIVE PLACARD ISSUED PURSUANT  TO  THIS  SECTION  SHALL  BE
    2  ISSUED  UPON  PAYMENT  OF  AN  INITIAL  ONE  TIME  SERVICE  CHARGE TO BE
    3  PRESCRIBED BY THE COMMISSIONER.
    4    S 3. This act shall take effect immediately.