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                                   5715
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 14, 2017
                                ___________
 
 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.
              

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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.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.