Bill Text: NY S05057 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires fire company command vehicles to be equipped with a partition or cage separating the front and rear seats.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION [S05057 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-S05057-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5057 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN SENATE March 6, 2017 ___________ Introduced by Sen. KENNEDY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to requiring certain emergency vehicles to be equipped with a protective screen The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 375 of the vehicle and traffic law is amended by 2 adding a new subdivision 52 to read as follows: 3 52. Fire company command vehicle partitions or cages. Every fire 4 company command vehicle registered in this state and registered or 5 licensed by a city, town or village shall be equipped with partitions or 6 cages made of steel or other protective material of equal strength 7 located between and effectively separating the front and rear seats and 8 preventing any item from the rear seat to be propelled into the front 9 seat. 10 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after 11 it shall have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD00701-01-7
