Bill Text: NY S01754 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Provides that chiropractors may certify disability for handicapped parking and real property tax purposes and be employed by school districts to assist medical inspectors.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-28 - PRINT NUMBER 1754A [S01754 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-S01754-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1754--A 2015-2016 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 14, 2015 ___________ Introduced by Sen. PARKER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government -- recom- mitted to the Committee on Local Government in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the real property tax law, in relation to enabling chiropractors to certify disability; to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to enabling chiropractors to certify disability for the purpose of issuance of handicapped license plates and registra- tion; and to amend the education law, in relation to enabling chiro- practors to be employed by school districts to provide school health services The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 459 of the real property tax law, 2 as amended by chapter 265 of the laws of 2013, is amended to read as 3 follows: 4 2. To qualify as physically disabled for the purposes of this section, 5 an individual shall submit to the assessor a certified statement from a 6 physician or chiropractor licensed to practice in the state on a form 7 prescribed and made available by the commissioner which states that the 8 individual has a permanent physical impairment which substantially 9 limits one or more of such individual's major life activities, except 10 that an individual who has obtained a certificate from the state commis- 11 sion for the blind stating that such individual is legally blind may 12 submit such certificate in lieu of a physician's certified statement. 13 § 2. Subdivision 4 and paragraph (b) of subdivision 5 of section 404-a 14 of the vehicle and traffic law as amended by chapter 376 of the laws of 15 2015, are amended to read as follows: 16 4. Issue of plates. The commissioner shall issue sets of plates to 17 such person in accordance with subdivision two of this section with EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD06769-02-6
