Bill Text: NY A09511 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Relates to the display of green lights on the vehicles of members of mobile crisis teams.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-06-03 - substituted by s8524c [A09511 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A09511-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         9511--B

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     March 16, 2022
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  MAGNARELLI  -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Transportation --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended,
          ordered  reprinted  as  amended  and  recommitted to said committee --
          reported and referred to the Committee on  Rules  --  Rules  Committee
          discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
          to the Committee on Rules

        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
    24  under or subject to the provisions of the membership  corporations  law,

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  or  any other law, operating its ambulance or ambulances on a non-profit
     2  basis for the convenience of the members thereof and their  families  or
     3  of  the  community  or  under  a  contract  with a county, city, town or
     4  village  pursuant  to  section  one  hundred twenty-two-b of the general
     5  municipal law; or
     6    [b.] ii. an unincorporated association of persons operating its  ambu-
     7  lance  or  ambulances  on  a non-profit basis for the convenience of the
     8  members and their families or of the community;
     9    b. "mobile crisis team" shall have the same meaning as  mobile  crisis
    10  teams as defined by paragraph eleven of subdivision (a) of section 36.03
    11  of the mental hygiene law; and
    12    c.  office  of  mental  health  and  office  of addiction services and
    13  supports shall  mean  the  autonomous  offices  established  within  the
    14  department  of  mental  hygiene  pursuant  to section 5.01 of the mental
    15  hygiene law.
    16    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    17  it shall have become a law.