Senate Bill S7048

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to the display of blue and green lights on certain motor vehicles

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Transportation Committee

  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2019-S7048 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §375, V & T L

2019-S7048 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Establishes that up to two green or blue lights may be displayed on certain motor vehicles owned by volunteer emergency responders.

2019-S7048 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2019-S7048 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7048
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 8, 2020
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. METZGER -- 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 the  display
   of blue and green lights on certain motor vehicles
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subparagraph a of paragraph 4 and the opening paragraph  of
 paragraph  5 of subdivision 41 of section 375 of the vehicle and traffic
 law, subparagraph a of paragraph 4 as amended by chapter 465 of the laws
 of 2010, and the opening paragraph of paragraph 5 as amended by  chapter
 349 of the laws of 2004, are amended to read as follows:
   a.  [One]  UP  TO  TWO blue [light] LIGHTS may be affixed to any motor
 vehicle owned by a volunteer member of a fire department or on  a  motor
 vehicle  owned  by a member of such person's family residing in the same
 household or by a business enterprise in which such person has a propri-
 etary interest or by which he or she is employed, provided  such  volun-
 teer  firefighter  has  been authorized in writing to so affix [a] UP TO
 TWO blue [light] LIGHTS by the chief of the fire department  or  company
 of  which he or she is a member, which authorization shall be subject to
 revocation at any time by the chief who issued the same or  his  or  her
 successor  in  office.  Such blue [light] LIGHTS may be displayed exclu-
 sively by such volunteer firefighter on such a vehicle only when engaged
 in an emergency operation. The use of blue lights on vehicles  shall  be
 restricted  for  use only by a volunteer firefighter except as otherwise
 provided for in subparagraph b of this paragraph.
   [One] UP TO TWO green [light] LIGHTS may be affixed to any motor vehi-
 cle owned by a member of a volunteer ambulance service, or  on  a  motor
 vehicle  owned  by  a  member  of such person's family, or by a business
 enterprise in which such person has a proprietary interest or  by  which
 he  is  employed, provided such member has been authorized in writing to
 so affix [a] UP TO TWO green [light] LIGHTS by the chief officer of such
 service as designated by the members thereof. Such green [light]  LIGHTS
 may  be  displayed  exclusively  by such member of a volunteer ambulance

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