Relates to ambulance registration fees.

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S3240-2011 Actions

• Mar 1, 2012: referred to transportation
• Mar 1, 2012: DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
• Mar 1, 2012: PASSED SENATE
• Feb 13, 2012: ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
• Feb 7, 2012: 2ND REPORT CAL.
• Feb 6, 2012: 1ST REPORT CAL.174
• Jan 4, 2012: REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION
• Jan 4, 2012: returned to senate
• Jan 4, 2012: died in assembly
• Jun 15, 2011: referred to transportation
• Jun 15, 2011: DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
• Jun 15, 2011: PASSED SENATE
• Jun 1, 2011: ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
• May 25, 2011: 2ND REPORT CAL.
• May 24, 2011: 1ST REPORT CAL.813
• Feb 14, 2011: REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION

S3240-2011 Meetings

Transportation: Feb 6, 2012, Transportation: May 24, 2011

S3240-2011 Calendars

Active List: Mar 1, 2012 , Active List: Jun 15, 2011 , Floor Calendar: Feb 7, 2012 , Floor Calendar: Feb 13, 2012 , Floor Calendar: Feb 14, 2012 , Floor Calendar: Feb 15, 2012 , Floor Calendar: Feb 29, 2012 , Floor Calendar: Mar 1, 2012 , Floor Calendar: May 25, 2011 , Floor Calendar: Jun 1, 2011 , Floor Calendar: Jun 2, 2011 , Floor Calendar: Jun 6, 2011 , Floor Calendar: Jun 7, 2011 , Floor Calendar: Jun 13, 2011 , Floor Calendar: Jun 14, 2011 , Floor Calendar: Jun 15, 2011

S3240-2011 Votes

S3240-2011 Memo

BILL NUMBER:S3240

TITLE OF BILL:
An act
to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to ambulance
registration fees

PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:
To exempt not for profit emergency
medical vehicles from the payment of vehicle registration fees.

SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS:
Section 1 allows ambulance services
that charge a fee to cover only the actual costs of the services
provided to remain exempt from paying vehicle registration fees.

Section 2 contains the effective date.

JUSTIFICATION:
Many localities rely on not-for-profit emergency rescue
squads or ambulance services to transport sick and injured residents.
Many of these rescue squads have operated for years on community
donations. With the downturn in the economy and advances in emergency
medical services and expanding roles and responsibilities, many of
these ambulance services found that they needed to bill for services
in order to remain solvent. Simply billing for services to remain
whole does not make them a for profit entity, and as such they should
not be required to pay vehicle registration fees.

PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
New bill.

FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
To be determined.

EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect immediately.

S3240-2011 Text

                      S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
  ________________________________________________________________________

                                    3240

                         2011-2012 Regular Sessions

                              I N  SENATE

                              February 14, 2011
                                 ___________

  Introduced  by Sen. GALLIVAN -- 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  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
  state  appointing them and who are assigned to foreign consulates in the
  state of New York, provided that American professional consular officers

   EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                        [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                             LBD08296-01-1

 S. 3240                             2

  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.
    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.