Bill Text: NY A00243 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Relates to monetary penalties that a parking violations bureau may impose for illegally idling the engine of a motor vehicle.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-01-08 - referred to transportation [A00243 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-A00243-Introduced.html
                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                      (PREFILED)
                                    January 9, 2013
                                      ___________
       Introduced by M. of A. ROSENTHAL, GOTTFRIED, ROBINSON, KELLNER, QUART --
         Multi-Sponsored  by -- M. of A. COOK, SCHIMEL, WEISENBERG -- read once
         and referred to the Committee on Transportation
       AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law and the administrative  code
         of  the  city  of New York, in relation to monetary penalties that the
         parking violations bureau may impose for illegally idling  the  engine
         of a motor vehicle
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 2 of section 237 of the  vehi-
    2  cle  and  traffic law, as amended by chapter 458 of the laws of 2010, is
    3  amended to read as follows:
    4    (a) parking violations in accordance with a schedule of monetary fines
    5  and penalties, provided  however,  that  monetary  penalties  shall  not
    6  exceed fifty dollars for each parking violation other than (i) in a city
    7  with a population of one million or more, violations committed in spaces
    8  where  stopping  or  standing is prohibited for which monetary penalties
    9  shall not exceed one hundred dollars and VIOLATIONS OF A RESTRICTION  ON
   10  IDLING  THE  ENGINE OF A MOTOR VEHICLE WHILE PARKING, STANDING, OR STOP-
   11  PING FOR WHICH MONETARY PENALTIES SHALL NOT  EXCEED  ONE  HUNDRED  FIFTY
   12  DOLLARS,  AND  (ii)  handicapped  parking  violations for which monetary
   13  penalties shall not exceed one hundred fifty dollars; and
   14    S 2. Subdivision b of section 19-203 of the administrative code of the
   15  city of New York, as amended by section 2 of part B of chapter 93 of the
   16  laws of 2002, is amended to read as follows:
   17    b. To provide  for  penalties  other  than  imprisonment  for  parking
   18  violations,  provided  however, that monetary penalties shall not exceed
   19  (1) fifty dollars for each parking violation,  [provided  that  monetary
   20  penalties  shall  not  exceed]  (2) one hundred dollars for each parking
   21  violation, OTHER THAN A RESTRICTION ON IDLING  THE  ENGINE  OF  A  MOTOR
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD02313-01-3
       A. 243                              2
    1  VEHICLE,  committed in a space where stopping or standing is prohibited,
    2  (3) ONE HUNDRED FIFTY DOLLARS FOR EACH VIOLATION  OF  A  RESTRICTION  ON
    3  IDLING  THE  ENGINE OF A MOTOR VEHICLE WHILE PARKING, STANDING, OR STOP-
    4  PING,  and [provided, further, that monetary penalties shall not exceed]
    5  (4) one hundred fifty dollars for each handicapped parking violation;
    6    S 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
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