A 8228: Authorizes the Seagate police department receive a special parking placard for the department's motor vehicles when such officers are on official business as peace officers.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 8228 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY May 5, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. BROOK-KRASNY -- read once and referred to the Committee on Transportation AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to parking regulations for the Seagate police department The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 1203 of the vehicle and traffic law is amended by 2 adding a new subdivision (e) to read as follows: 3 (e) Where parking is prohibited by signs, but not where stopping or 4 standing is prohibited, a peace officer, as designated under section 5 2.10 of the criminal procedure law, employed by the Seagate police 6 department and acting within the scope of such peace officer's official 7 duties, may park a motor vehicle owned by such police department, iden- 8 tified by a special placard issued by the commissioner pursuant to 9 section four hundred four-ff of this chapter. 10 § 2. The vehicle and traffic law is amended by adding a new section 11 404-ff to read as follows: 12 § 404-ff. Distinctive placard for the Seagate police department. 1. 13 The Seagate police department, upon request, shall be issued a set of 14 distinctive placards each bearing a unique serial number in such form 15 and detail as the commissioner shall prescribe. Application for such 16 placard shall be filed with the commissioner and shall be verified annu- 17 ally by the applicant. 18 2. The distinctive placards authorized under subdivision one of this 19 section shall be issued upon proof, satisfactory to the commissioner, 20 that the applicant is presently a member of the Seagate police depart- 21 ment and such placards shall be used when the Seagate police department 22 is on official business as peace officers, as designated under section 23 2.10 of the criminal procedure law. 24 3. The distinctive placards issued pursuant to this section shall be 25 issued upon payment of an initial one time service charge to be 26 prescribed by the commissioner. 27 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD05123-01-5