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                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              January 9, 2018
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 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  MAGNARELLI  -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on Governmental Operations
 
 AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law and the  executive  law,  in
   relation  to  authorizing chief executives to designate any vehicle as
   an emergency vehicle during a declaration of a disaster  emergency  by
   executive action or local state of emergency

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 101 of the vehicle and traffic law, as  amended  by
 chapter 446 of the laws of 2003, is amended to read as follows:
   §  101.  Authorized emergency vehicle. Every ambulance, police vehicle
 or bicycle, correction vehicle, fire vehicle,  civil  defense  emergency
 vehicle,  emergency  ambulance  service vehicle, blood delivery vehicle,
 county  emergency  medical  services  vehicle,  environmental  emergency
 response  vehicle,  sanitation patrol vehicle, hazardous materials emer-
 gency vehicle and ordnance disposal vehicle of the armed forces  of  the
 United  States AND ANY VEHICLE A CHIEF EXECUTIVE, AS DEFINED PURSUANT TO
 SECTION TWENTY OF THE EXECUTIVE LAW, AUTHORIZES AS AN EMERGENCY  VEHICLE
 DURING  THE  GOVERNOR'S DECLARATION OF A DISASTER EMERGENCY BY EXECUTIVE
 ACTION PURSUANT TO SECTION TWENTY-EIGHT OF THE EXECUTIVE LAW OR A  LOCAL
 STATE  OF  EMERGENCY  AS  DEFINED PURSUANT TO SECTION TWENTY-FOUR OF THE
 EXECUTIVE LAW.
   § 2. Paragraph a of subdivision 1 of section 24 of the executive  law,
 as  added  by  chapter  640  of  the laws of 1978, is amended to read as
 follows:
   a. the establishment of a curfew and the prohibition  and  control  of
 pedestrian  and  vehicular traffic, except essential [emergency vehicles
 and personnel] AUTHORIZED EMERGENCY  VEHICLES  AS  DEFINED  PURSUANT  TO
 SECTION ONE HUNDRED ONE OF THE VEHICLE AND TRAFFIC LAW;
   §  3. Paragraph g of subdivision 1 of section 24 of the executive law,
 as relettered by chapter 158 of the laws of 1994,  is  relettered  para-
 graph h and a new paragraph g is added to read as follows:
   G. THE DESIGNATION OF ANY VEHICLE AS AN AUTHORIZED EMERGENCY VEHICLE;
   § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
              

                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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