Bill Text: NY A04698 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Relates to a grace period for violations of alternate side of the street parking rules.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-01-04 - referred to transportation [A04698 Detail]
Download: New_York-2011-A04698-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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4698
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
February 7, 2011
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Introduced by M. of A. V. LOPEZ -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Transportation
AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law and the administrative code
of the city of New York, in relation to alternate side of the street
parking
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
1 Section 1. The vehicle and traffic law is amended by adding a new
2 section 1205 to read as follows:
3 S 1205. ALTERNATE SIDE OF THE STREET PARKING. WHEN PARKING IS PROHIB-
4 ITED BY THIS ARTICLE OR BY LOCAL LAW, ORDINANCE, ORDER, RULE OR REGU-
5 LATION, PURSUANT TO AN ALTERNATE SIDE OF THE STREET PARKING LAW, ORDI-
6 NANCE, ORDER, RULE OR REGULATION, NO PENALTY SHALL BE IMPOSED, NOR SHALL
7 ANY NOTICE OF VIOLATION BE ISSUED TO AN OWNER OR OPERATOR OF A VEHICLE
8 UNLESS AND UNTIL TEN MINUTES HAVE ELAPSED FROM THE TIME POSTED ON A
9 TRAFFIC SIGN, SIGNAL OR MARKING THAT DEMARCATES THE PROHIBITED PERIOD OF
10 PARKING. THE ELAPSED TIME SHALL BE MEASURED FROM THE TIME POSTED ON A
11 TRAFFIC SIGN, SIGNAL OR MARKING THAT DEMARCATES THE PROHIBITED PERIOD OF
12 PARKING TO THE TIME PUBLISHED ON THE NOTICE OF VIOLATION, WITH THE PERI-
13 OD UP TO AND INCLUDING TEN MINUTES PAST THE POSTED PROHIBITED PERIOD NOT
14 CONSTITUTING A VIOLATION OF THE PROHIBITIONS POSTED ON THE TRAFFIC SIGN,
15 SIGNAL OR MARKING.
16 S 2. Subdivision (b) of section 1640 of the vehicle and traffic law is
17 amended to read as follows:
18 (b) Such a legislative body also may by local law, ordinance, order,
19 rule or regulation prohibit, restrict or limit the stopping, standing or
20 parking of vehicles upon property owned or leased by such city or
21 village; PROVIDED THAT SUCH LAWS, ORDINANCES, ORDERS, RULES OR REGU-
22 LATIONS DO NOT CONFLICT WITH ARTICLE THIRTY-TWO OF THIS CHAPTER.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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1 S 3. Subdivision (d) of section 1660 of the vehicle and traffic law,
2 as added by chapter 763 of the laws of 1964, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 (d) Such a town board also may by ordinance, order, rule or regulation
5 prohibit, restrict or limit the stopping, standing or parking of vehi-
6 cles upon property owned or leased by such town; PROVIDED THAT SUCH
7 ORDINANCES, ORDERS, RULES OR REGULATIONS DO NOT CONFLICT WITH ARTICLE
8 THIRTY-TWO OF THIS CHAPTER.
9 S 4. The administrative code of the city of New York is amended by
10 adding a new section 19-163.2 to read as follows:
11 S 19-163.2 GRACE PERIOD FOR PARKING RULES. WHEN PARKING IS PROHIBITED
12 BY THIS ARTICLE OR BY LOCAL LAW, ORDINANCE, ORDER, RULE OR REGULATION,
13 PURSUANT TO AN ALTERNATE SIDE OF THE STREET PARKING LAW, ORDINANCE,
14 ORDER, RULE OR REGULATION, NO PENALTY SHALL BE IMPOSED, NOR SHALL ANY
15 NOTICE OF VIOLATION BE ISSUED TO AN OWNER OR OPERATOR OF A VEHICLE
16 UNLESS AND UNTIL TEN MINUTES HAVE ELAPSED FROM THE TIME POSTED ON A
17 TRAFFIC SIGN, SIGNAL OR MARKING THAT DEMARCATES THE PROHIBITED PERIOD OF
18 PARKING. THE ELAPSED TIME SHALL BE MEASURED FROM THE TIME POSTED ON A
19 TRAFFIC SIGN, SIGNAL OR MARKING THAT DEMARCATES THE PROHIBITED PERIOD OF
20 PARKING TO THE TIME PUBLISHED ON THE NOTICE OF VIOLATION, WITH THE PERI-
21 OD UP TO AND INCLUDING TEN MINUTES PAST THE POSTED PROHIBITED PERIOD NOT
22 CONSTITUTING A VIOLATION OF THE PROHIBITIONS POSTED ON THE TRAFFIC SIGN,
23 SIGNAL OR MARKING.
24 S 5. This act shall take effect immediately.
