Bill Text: NY S05116 | 2009-2010 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Permits licensed physician, visiting nurse, nurse, physical therapist or chiropractor to park where parking is prohibited if vehicle is identified by special plate; permits such parking for a period not to exceed 1 hour while attending to a patient in the immediate vicinity.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-01-06 - REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION [S05116 Detail]

Download: New_York-2009-S05116-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         5116
                              2009-2010 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                    April 27, 2009
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       Introduced  by Sen. STAVISKY -- 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  parking
         regulations
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Section 1203 of the vehicle and traffic law is  amended  by
    2  adding a new subdivision (e) to read as follows:
    3    (E)  WHERE  PARKING  IS PROHIBITED BY SIGNS, BUT NOT WHERE STOPPING OR
    4  STANDING IS PROHIBITED, A DULY LICENSED PHYSICIAN, VISITING NURSE, NURSE
    5  AS DEFINED IN ARTICLE ONE HUNDRED  THIRTY-NINE  OF  THE  EDUCATION  LAW,
    6  PHYSICAL THERAPIST OR CHIROPRACTOR MAY PARK HIS/HER MOTOR VEHICLE, IDEN-
    7  TIFIED  BY  A  SPECIAL  PLACARD  ISSUED  BY THE COMMISSIONER PURSUANT TO
    8  SECTION FOUR HUNDRED FOUR-X OF THIS CHAPTER, FOR A PERIOD NOT TO  EXCEED
    9  ONE HOUR WHILE ATTENDING TO A PATIENT IN THE IMMEDIATE VICINITY.
   10    S  2.  The  vehicle and traffic law is amended by adding a new section
   11  404-x to read as follows:
   12    S 404-X. DISTINCTIVE PLACARD FOR LICENSED PHYSICIANS, VISITING NURSES,
   13  NURSES, PHYSICAL THERAPISTS AND  CHIROPRACTORS.  1.  ANY  DULY  LICENSED
   14  PHYSICIAN,  VISITING NURSE, NURSE, PHYSICAL THERAPIST OR CHIROPRACTOR IN
   15  THIS STATE SHALL, UPON REQUEST, BE ISSUED A DISTINCTIVE PLACARD  BEARING
   16  A UNIQUE SERIAL NUMBER IN SUCH FORM AND DETAIL AS THE COMMISSIONER SHALL
   17  PRESCRIBE.  APPLICATION FOR SAID PLACARD SHALL BE FILED WITH THE COMMIS-
   18  SIONER AND SHALL BE VERIFIED ANNUALLY BY THE APPLICANT.
   19    2. THE DISTINCTIVE PLACARD  AUTHORIZED  IN  SUBDIVISION  ONE  OF  THIS
   20  SECTION  SHALL  BE  ISSUED UPON PROOF, SATISFACTORY TO THE COMMISSIONER,
   21  THAT THE APPLICANT IS PRESENTLY  A  DULY  LICENSED  PHYSICIAN,  VISITING
   22  NURSE, NURSE, PHYSICAL THERAPIST OR CHIROPRACTOR.
   23    3.  A  DISTINCTIVE  PLACARD  ISSUED  PURSUANT TO THIS SECTION SHALL BE
   24  ISSUED UPON PAYMENT  OF  AN  INITIAL  ONE  TIME  SERVICE  CHARGE  TO  BE
   25  PRESCRIBED BY THE COMMISSIONER.
   26    S 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD03961-03-9