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                                   6110
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              March 10, 2021
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 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  BARCLAY, ASHBY, DeSTEFANO, ANGELINO, HAWLEY,
   J. M. GIGLIO, NORRIS -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.  BROWN,  GALLA-
   HAN, MANKTELOW -- read once and referred to the Committee on Transpor-
   tation
 
 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
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

                                                            LBD02577-01-1

 A. 6110                             2
 
 state appointing them and who are assigned to foreign consulates in  the
 state of New York, provided that American professional consular officers
 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.