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- Recommit, enacting clause stricken
- Referred to transportation
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Permits licensed physician, visiting nurse, nurse, physical therapist or chiropractor to park where parking is prohibited if vehicle is identified by special placard
In Assembly Committee · Transportation · Sponsor William Colton
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Sponsor's memo
BILL NUMBER:S1219
Title of bill
An act to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to parking regulations
Purpose or general idea of bill
The purpose of this bill is to allow registered medical professionals providing care to homebound patients to legally park near the patient's home while attending to that patient.
Summary of specific provisions
This bill amends § 1203 of the vehicle and traffic law to include a new subdivision (e). It will expand it to include licensed physical therapists, nurses and chiropractors who are attending to patients in their homes. The bill would allow these professionals to park where parking is prohibited by signs, but not where stopping or standing is prohibited, with a maximum limit of one hour while attending to a patient in the immediate vicinity.
Justification
Local ordinances have traditionally given parking privileges to doctors, however, more often it is nurses, physical therapists and chiropractors who are attending to patients in their homes. Also, nurses have been targets of thieves that attack them for the valuable prescriptions that they must carry with them for their homebound patient. Allowing nurses the right to park closer to a patient's home will reduce the risk they take when visiting and delivering medications to a patient.
Prior legislative history
New in Senate.
Fiscal implications
None. This legislation would actually raise revenue for the state, as the beneficiaries of this legislation would be subjected to a one time service charge for the parking placard.
Effective date
This act shall take effect immediately.
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