Senate Bill S7809

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to parking regulations

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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-S7809 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §1203, add §404-ff, V & T L

2019-S7809 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides for a distinctive placard for licensed physicians, visiting nurses, nurses, physical therapists and chiropractors to permit parking in parking prohibited zones for a period of up to one hour while attending to a patient in the immediate vicinity.

2019-S7809 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2019-S7809 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7809
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 24, 2020
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. KENNEDY -- 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  parking
   regulations
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Section 1203 of the vehicle and traffic law is  amended  by
 adding a new subdivision (e) to read as follows:
   (E)  WHERE  PARKING  IS PROHIBITED BY SIGNS, BUT NOT WHERE STOPPING OR
 STANDING IS PROHIBITED, A DULY LICENSED PHYSICIAN, VISITING NURSE, NURSE
 AS DEFINED IN ARTICLE ONE HUNDRED  THIRTY-NINE  OF  THE  EDUCATION  LAW,
 PHYSICAL THERAPIST OR CHIROPRACTOR MAY PARK HIS/HER MOTOR VEHICLE, IDEN-
 TIFIED  BY  A  SPECIAL  PLACARD  ISSUED  BY THE COMMISSIONER PURSUANT TO
 SECTION FOUR HUNDRED FOUR-FF OF THIS CHAPTER, FOR A PERIOD NOT TO EXCEED
 ONE HOUR WHILE ATTENDING TO A PATIENT IN THE IMMEDIATE VICINITY.
   § 2. The vehicle and traffic law is amended by adding  a  new  section
 404-ff to read as follows:
   §  404-FF. DISTINCTIVE PLACARD FOR LICENSED PHYSICIANS, VISITING NURS-
 ES, NURSES, PHYSICAL THERAPISTS AND CHIROPRACTORS. 1. ANY DULY  LICENSED
 PHYSICIAN,  VISITING NURSE, NURSE, PHYSICAL THERAPIST OR CHIROPRACTOR IN
 THIS STATE SHALL, UPON REQUEST, BE ISSUED A DISTINCTIVE PLACARD  BEARING
 A UNIQUE SERIAL NUMBER IN SUCH FORM AND DETAIL AS THE COMMISSIONER SHALL
 PRESCRIBE.  APPLICATION FOR SAID PLACARD SHALL BE FILED WITH THE COMMIS-
 SIONER AND SHALL BE VERIFIED ANNUALLY BY THE APPLICANT.
   2. THE DISTINCTIVE PLACARD  AUTHORIZED  IN  SUBDIVISION  ONE  OF  THIS
 SECTION  SHALL  BE  ISSUED UPON PROOF, SATISFACTORY TO THE COMMISSIONER,
 THAT THE APPLICANT IS PRESENTLY  A  DULY  LICENSED  PHYSICIAN,  VISITING
 NURSE, NURSE, PHYSICAL THERAPIST OR CHIROPRACTOR.
   3.  A  DISTINCTIVE  PLACARD  ISSUED  PURSUANT TO THIS SECTION SHALL BE
 ISSUED UPON PAYMENT  OF  AN  INITIAL  ONE  TIME  SERVICE  CHARGE  TO  BE
 PRESCRIBED BY THE COMMISSIONER.
   § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD14996-01-0

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