Bill Text: NY A09031 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Increases fines for more than ten repeated parking violations within a twenty-four month period.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-02-05 - referred to transportation [A09031 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A09031-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          9031

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 5, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. SIMONE -- 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 increasing fines for  repeated
          parking violations

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 237 of  the  vehicle  and  traffic
     2  law,  as  amended by chapter 458 of the laws of 2010, is amended to read
     3  as follows:
     4    2. To provide for penalties other than imprisonment  for  (a)  parking
     5  violations  in  accordance  with a schedule of monetary fines and penal-
     6  ties, provided however, that monetary penalties shall not  exceed  fifty
     7  dollars for each parking violation other than (i) in a city with a popu-
     8  lation  of  one  million  or  more, violations committed in spaces where
     9  stopping or standing is prohibited for which  monetary  penalties  shall
    10  not  exceed one hundred dollars and, (ii) handicapped parking violations
    11  for which monetary penalties shall not exceed one hundred fifty dollars,
    12  provided that the maximum penalties set forth in this paragraph  may  be
    13  increased  by  one hundred percent for more than ten violations within a
    14  twenty-four month period and an additional one hundred  percent  of  the
    15  maximum  penalty for each subsequent violation within twenty-four months
    16  up to five hundred percent of the maximum fine set forth in  this  para-
    17  graph;  and  (b)  abandoned  vehicle violations, except in a city with a
    18  population of one million  or  more,  provided  however,  that  monetary
    19  penalties shall not be less than two hundred fifty dollars nor more than
    20  one  thousand  dollars  for  each abandoned vehicle violation; and (c) a
    21  city with a population of one million or  more  may  impose  a  monetary
    22  penalty of up to two hundred fifty dollars for a first offense and up to
    23  five  hundred  dollars for subsequent offenses within a six month period
    24  for tractor-trailer combinations, tractors,  truck  trailers  and  semi-
    25  trailers parked overnight on streets in residential neighborhoods;

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13829-02-3
        A. 9031                             2

     1    § 2. Subdivision b of section 19-203 of the administrative code of the
     2  city of New York, as amended by section 2 of part B of chapter 93 of the
     3  laws of 2002, is amended to read as follows:
     4    b.  To  provide  for  penalties  other  than  imprisonment for parking
     5  violations, provided however, that monetary penalties shall  not  exceed
     6  fifty  dollars for each parking violation, provided that monetary penal-
     7  ties shall not exceed one hundred dollars  for  each  parking  violation
     8  committed  in  a  space  where  stopping  or  standing is prohibited and
     9  provided, further, that monetary penalties shall not exceed one  hundred
    10  fifty  dollars  for  each  handicapped  parking  violation,  and further
    11  provided that the maximum penalties set forth in this subdivision may be
    12  increased by one hundred percent for more than ten violations  within  a
    13  twenty-four  month  period  and an additional one hundred percent of the
    14  maximum penalty for each subsequent violation within twenty-four  months
    15  up  to five hundred percent of the maximum fine set forth in this subdi-
    16  vision;
    17    § 3. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day  after  it  shall
    18  have become a law.