What's happening
This bill exempts ambulances charging fees to cover actual costs, but not for-profit ambulances, from registration fees.
Why it matters
Reduces operational costs for non-profit and municipal ambulance services. by exempting them from registration fees if they only charge enough to cover actual expenses, potentially helping to keep these lifesaving services financially viable in communities.
Distinguishes between for-profit and cost-recovery ambulance providers. , ensuring that only those not seeking profit (including volunteer squads and municipal EMS agencies) benefit from the exemption, rather than private, profit-driven ambulance companies.
May help maintain or improve emergency medical coverage in rural and underserved areas. , where cost-recovery ambulance services are often the primary or only providers and operate on tight budgets.
Clarifies legal status for fee-charging ambulance services. , reducing administrative uncertainty and possible disputes over registration fee obligations for EMS agencies that bill patients but do not operate for profit.
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Reduce Ambulance Registration Fees
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- Held for consideration in transportation
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Waive Fees for Ambulance Registration
In Senate Committee · Transportation · Sponsor Patrick M. Gallivan
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STATE OF NEW YORK
5715
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 14, 2017
Introduced by M. of A. KOLB -- read once and referred 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 Assembly, 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.
LBD00088-01-7
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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 operated by the American Red Cross, but in other respects shall be applicable.
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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