Bill Text: NY S02195 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires certain state police vehicles to carry jumper cables; requires officers operating such vehicles offer to use such jumper cables on disabled vehicles.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-09 - PRINT NUMBER 2195A [S02195 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S02195-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         2195--A

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 19, 2023
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        Introduced by Sen. FERNANDEZ -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed  to be committed to the Committee on Finance -- recommitted to
          the Committee on Finance 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 executive law,  in  relation  to  requiring  certain
          state police vehicles to carry and offer use of jumper cables

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. The executive law is amended by adding a new section  212-a
     2  to read as follows:
     3    §  212-a.  Required  equipment.  The superintendent shall require that
     4  vehicles operated by  the  New  York  state  police  performing  traffic
     5  enforcement  be  equipped  with  jumper cables to assist in powering the
     6  battery of disabled vehicles. A state police officer shall  be  required
     7  to  offer use of such jumper cables when approaching a disabled vehicle.
     8  The state police officer shall only place the  jumper  cables  on  their
     9  state  police  vehicle.  The operator of the disabled vehicle shall only
    10  place the jumper cables on their disabled vehicle and subsequently start
    11  the vehicle.
    12    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    13  it shall have become a law.  Effective immediately, the addition, amend-
    14  ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
    15  tation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be  made  and
    16  completed on or before such effective date.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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