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                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 9, 2019
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 Introduced by M. of A. CAHILL -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Transportation
 
 AN  ACT to amend the public authorities law, in relation to exemption of
   emergency service vehicles from thruway tolls

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision  1 of section 378-a of the public authorities
 law, as added by chapter 23 of the laws of 2010, is amended to  read  as
 follows:
   1.  The  authority  is hereby authorized and directed to issue refunds
 for tolls incurred by [ambulances] AMBULANCE SERVICE  or  fire  vehicles
 engaged  in  an emergency operation, or, at the option of the authority,
 to issue emergency services permits for use  by  [ambulances]  AMBULANCE
 SERVICE  and  fire  vehicles which shall provide for travel at no charge
 between interchanges and barriers while such vehicles are engaged in  an
 emergency  operation.  For  purposes  of  this section, the term ["ambu-
 lance"] "AMBULANCE SERVICE" shall have the same meaning as such term  is
 defined by [section one hundred-b of the vehicle and traffic law] SUBDI-
 VISION  TWO  OR THREE OF SECTION THREE THOUSAND ONE OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH
 LAW, the term "fire vehicle" shall have the same meaning as such term is
 defined by section one hundred fifteen-a of the vehicle and traffic law,
 and the term "emergency operation" shall have the same meaning  as  such
 term  is  defined  by  section one hundred fourteen-b of the vehicle and
 traffic law, BUT FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION SHALL INCLUDE  RETURN-
 ING FROM SUCH SERVICE.  In any rules and regulations promulgated for the
 implementation  of this section, the authority may establish the type of
 documentation or other proof  satisfactory  to  the  authority  that  an
 [ambulance] AMBULANCE SERVICE or fire vehicle was engaged in an emergen-
 cy operation at the time a toll was incurred.
   § 2. 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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