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                                  5484

                       2011-2012 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            February 22, 2011
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Introduced  by  M. of A. KOLB -- read once and referred to the Committee
  on Transportation

AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in  relation  to  ambulance
  registration fees

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. Paragraph b of subdivision 6 of section 401 of the  vehicle
and  traffic  law,  as  amended  by  chapter 168 of the laws of 1987, is
amended to read as follows:
  b. The provisions of this article  with  respect  to  the  payment  of
registration  fees  shall  not  apply  to ambulances used exclusively to
carry sick or injured persons, other than those used in the business  of
carrying  or transporting sick or injured persons for [hire or] profit[,
or]; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT AMBULANCE SERVICES THAT  CHARGE  A  FEE  TO
COVER  ACTUAL  COSTS OF SUCH SERVICES SHALL NOT BE CONSIDERED FOR PROFIT
FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION. NOR SHALL  SUCH  PROVISIONS  APPLY  to
motor  vehicles  which  are especially constructed and equipped to carry
lost, strayed, sick, maimed or disabled animals, and owned and  operated
for  that  purpose  by a duly incorporated society, incorporated for the
purpose of preventing cruelty to animals, or to motor vehicles owned  or
controlled by the state, a city, county, village, town, school district,
or  fire  district or any of the departments thereof or county extension
service association or public  improvement  district  formed  under  and
pursuant  to  provisions  of  the  town law, or sanitary district formed
pursuant to the provisions of chapter five hundred sixteen of  the  laws
of  nineteen  hundred  twenty-eight,  as  amended,  or soil conservation
districts formed pursuant to the provisions  of  the  soil  conservation
districts  law,  or  to  motor  vehicles  owned  by professional foreign
consuls-general, consuls and vice consuls,  who  are  nationals  of  the
state  appointing them and who are assigned to foreign consulates in the
state of New York, provided that American professional consular officers

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD08296-01-1
              

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of equal rank who are citizens of the United  States  and  who  exercise
their official functions at American consulates in such foreign country,
are  granted  reciprocal exemption, or to motor vehicles owned and oper-
ated  by the American Red Cross, but in other respects shall be applica-
ble.
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.