Amendment AA4-AB374

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2001 - 2002 LEGISLATURE

ASSEMBLY AMENDMENT 4, TO 2001 ASSEMBLY BILL 374

October 2, 2001 - Offered by Representative Jeskewitz.

AB374-AA4,1,1 At the locations indicated, amend the bill as follows:

AB374-AA4,1,3 1. Page 1, line 4: delete "organs or" and substitute "organs for transplantation,".

AB374-AA4,1,5 2. Page 1, line 5: before the period insert ", or medical devices or equipment for emergency purposes".

AB374-AA4,1,6 3. Page 2, line 14: after that line insert:

AB374-AA4,1,7 " Section 2g. 340.01 (3) (dh) of the statutes is created to read:

AB374-AA4,2,2 340.01 (3) (dh) Privately owned motor vehicles being operated in the course of a business and being used, in response to an emergency call from a treating physician or his or her designee declaring the transportation to be an emergency, to transport medical devices or equipment to a hospital or ambulatory surgery center, or to pick up medical devices or equipment for immediate transportation to a hospital or ambulatory surgery center, if the medical devices or equipment are to be used for human implantation or for urgent medical treatment immediately after the transportation.".

AB374-AA4,2,4 4. Page 3, line 9: delete the material beginning with that line and ending with page 5, line 4, and substitute:

AB374-AA4,2,5 " Section 6m. 347.25 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB374-AA4,2,20 347.25 (1) Except as provided in subs. (1m) (a), (1r) , and (1s), an authorized emergency vehicle may be equipped with one or more flashing, oscillating , or rotating red lights, except that ambulances, fire department equipment, and privately owned motor vehicles under s. 340.01 (3) (d) or (dm) being used by personnel of a full-time or part-time fire department or by members of a volunteer fire department or rescue squad, and privately owned motor vehicles under s. 340.01 (3) (dh) being used to transport or pick up medical devices or equipment, may be equipped with red or red and white lights, and shall be so equipped when the operator thereof is exercising the privileges granted by s. 346.03. The lights shall be so designed and mounted as to be plainly visible and understandable from a distance of 500 feet both during normal sunlight and during hours of darkness. No operator of an authorized emergency vehicle may use the warning lights except when responding to an emergency call or when in pursuit of an actual or suspected violator of the law, when responding to but not upon returning from a fire alarm, or when necessarily parked in a position which is likely to be hazardous to traffic.".

AB374-AA4,2,21 (End)