Bill Text: NY S08727 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Increases the maximum amount of fines for parking violations from fifty dollars to sixty-five dollars for a first violation, eighty-five dollars for a second parking violation, and one hundred dollars for each subsequent violation.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-03-04 - REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION [S08727 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S08727-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8727

                    IN SENATE

                                      March 4, 2024
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        Introduced  by  Sens.  JACKSON,  SEPULVEDA,  PERSAUD  --  read twice and
          ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on
          Transportation

        AN  ACT  to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to increasing
          the fines for 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  sixty-five  dollars  for  a first parking violation, eighty-five dollars
     8  for a second parking violation, and one hundred dollars for each  subse-
     9  quent  parking  violation  other than (i) in a city with a population of
    10  one million or more, violations committed in spaces  where  stopping  or
    11  standing is prohibited for which monetary penalties shall not exceed one
    12  hundred dollars and, (ii) handicapped parking violations for which mone-
    13  tary penalties shall not exceed one hundred fifty dollars; and (b) aban-
    14  doned  vehicle  violations,  except  in  a city with a population of one
    15  million or more, provided however, that monetary penalties shall not  be
    16  less  than  two hundred fifty dollars nor more than one thousand dollars
    17  for each abandoned vehicle violation; and (c) a city with  a  population
    18  of  one  million  or  more  may  impose  a monetary penalty of up to two
    19  hundred fifty dollars for a first offense and up to five hundred dollars
    20  for subsequent offenses within a six month  period  for  tractor-trailer
    21  combinations,  tractors,  truck  trailers and semi-trailers parked over-
    22  night on streets in residential neighborhoods;
    23    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14320-02-4