Bill Text: NY A03817 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides for increased fines for overnight parking of tractor-trailer combinations, tractors, truck trailers and semi-trailers on residential streets in the city of New York.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to transportation [A03817 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A03817-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3817

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 28, 2021
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        Introduced  by M. of A. VANEL -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Transportation

        AN ACT to amend the administrative code of the city of New York and  the
          vehicle  and traffic law, in relation to increasing the fine for trac-
          tor-trailer combinations that park on residential streets overnight

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  Paragraph  2  of  subdivision  c of section 19-170 of the
     2  administrative code of the city of New York, as  amended  by  local  law
     3  number  74 of the city of New York for the year 2019, is amended to read
     4  as follows:
     5    2. A first violation of this section, when the commercial vehicle is a
     6  tractor-trailer combination, tractor,  truck  trailer  or  semi-trailer,
     7  shall  be punishable by a monetary fine of [$250] $400.  Any such subse-
     8  quent violation of this section by the same owner, as defined  in  para-
     9  graph  a of subdivision 1 of section 239 of the vehicle and traffic law,
    10  within a six month period shall be punishable  by  a  monetary  fine  of
    11  [$500] $800.
    12    §  2.  Subdivision 2 of section 237 of the vehicle and traffic law, as
    13  amended by chapter 458 of the laws  of  2010,  is  amended  to  read  as
    14  follows:
    15    2.  To  provide  for penalties other than imprisonment for (a) parking
    16  violations in accordance with a schedule of monetary  fines  and  penal-
    17  ties,  provided  however, that monetary penalties shall not exceed fifty
    18  dollars for each parking violation other than (i) in a city with a popu-
    19  lation of one million or more,  violations  committed  in  spaces  where
    20  stopping  or  standing  is prohibited for which monetary penalties shall
    21  not exceed one hundred dollars and, (ii) handicapped parking  violations
    22  for which monetary penalties shall not exceed one hundred fifty dollars;
    23  and (b) abandoned vehicle violations, except in a city with a population
    24  of  one million or more, provided however, that monetary penalties shall

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03135-01-1
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     1  not be less than two hundred fifty dollars nor more  than  one  thousand
     2  dollars  for  each  abandoned  vehicle  violation; and (c) a city with a
     3  population of one million or more may impose a monetary penalty of up to
     4  [two  hundred  fifty] four hundred dollars for a first offense and up to
     5  [five] eight hundred dollars for subsequent offenses within a six  month
     6  period  for  tractor-trailer  combinations, tractors, truck trailers and
     7  semi-trailers parked overnight on streets in residential neighborhoods;
     8    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.