Bill Text: NY S02162 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Designates human organ delivery vehicles as authorized emergency vehicles which shall permit the operator of such vehicles certain privileges when involved in an emergency operation.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 12-4)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2018-01-30 - referred to transportation [S02162 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-S02162-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 2162--A Cal. No. 467 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 12, 2017 ___________ Introduced by Sens. SERINO, AVELLA, CARLUCCI, GOLDEN, HANNON, HELMING, LARKIN, MARCHIONE, O'MARA, SEWARD -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation -- reported favorably from said committee, ordered to first and second report, ordered to a third reading, amended and ordered reprinted, retaining its place in the order of third reading AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to designating human organ delivery vehicles as authorized emergency vehicles The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 101 of the vehicle and traffic law, as amended by 2 chapter 446 of the laws of 2003, is amended to read as follows: 3 § 101. Authorized emergency vehicle. Every ambulance, police vehicle 4 or bicycle, correction vehicle, fire vehicle, civil defense emergency 5 vehicle, emergency ambulance service vehicle, blood delivery vehicle, 6 human organ delivery vehicle, county emergency medical services vehicle, 7 environmental emergency response vehicle, sanitation patrol vehicle, 8 hazardous materials emergency vehicle and ordnance disposal vehicle of 9 the armed forces of the United States. 10 § 2. Section 114-b of the vehicle and traffic law, as amended by chap- 11 ter 460 of the laws of 1996, is amended to read as follows: 12 § 114-b. Emergency operation. The operation, or parking, of an author- 13 ized emergency vehicle, when such vehicle is engaged in transporting a 14 sick or injured person, transporting prisoners, delivering blood or 15 blood products in a situation involving an imminent health risk, trans- 16 porting human organs, human tissue or medical personnel for the purpose 17 of organ recovery or transplantation in a situation involving an immi- 18 nent health risk, pursuing an actual or suspected violator of the law, 19 or responding to, or working or assisting at the scene of an accident, 20 disaster, police call, alarm of fire, actual or potential release of EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD03752-02-7S. 2162--A 2 1 hazardous materials or other emergency. Emergency operation shall not 2 include returning from such service. 3 § 3. The vehicle and traffic law is amended by adding a new section 4 117-e to read as follows: 5 § 117-e. Human organ delivery vehicle. Any vehicle which is operated 6 by or on behalf of an organ procurement organization, as defined in 7 subdivision five of section four thousand three hundred sixty of the 8 public health law, for the sole purpose of transporting human organs, 9 human tissue, or medical personnel for the purpose of organ recovery or 10 transplantation on an emergency basis. No human organ delivery vehicle 11 shall be operated as an authorized emergency vehicle engaged in an emer- 12 gency operation unless the driver of such vehicle has undergone appro- 13 priate training for the operation of authorized emergency vehicles 14 during emergency operations. 15 § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.
