Bill Text: NY A01270 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to violations and a mandatory surcharge for parking in a bicycle lane which shall be paid to the clerk of the court of administrative tribunal that made the determination of liability.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to transportation [A01270 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A01270-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1270
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 14, 2019
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        Introduced  by  M.  of A. SIMON, MOSLEY, D'URSO, GOTTFRIED, SEAWRIGHT --
          Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. GLICK, JAFFEE -- 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 violations for parking in a
          bicycle lane
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1. Subdivision b of section 19-203 of the administrative code
     2  of the city of New York, as amended by section 2 of part B of chapter 93
     3  of the 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  or  violation  for
    11  parking in a bicycle lane;
    12    §  2.  The  vehicle and traffic law is amended by adding a new section
    13  1809-f to read as follows:
    14    § 1809-f. Mandatory surcharge required for certain violations relating
    15  to parking in a bicycle lane. 1. Notwithstanding any other provision  of
    16  law,  whenever  proceedings  in  an  administrative  tribunal or a court
    17  result in a finding of liability, or conviction for a violation  of  any
    18  statute,  local law or ordinance or rule involving the parking, stopping
    19  or standing of motor vehicles in a bicycle lane, there shall be  levied,
    20  in  addition to any sentence or other surcharge required or permitted by
    21  law, an additional surcharge of thirty dollars.
    22    2. The mandatory surcharge provided for in  subdivision  one  of  this
    23  section shall be paid to the clerk of the court or administrative tribu-
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  nal  that made the determination of liability. Within the first ten days
     2  of the month next succeeding  the  collection  of  such  surcharge,  the
     3  collecting  authority shall pay such surcharge to the chief fiscal offi-
     4  cer  of  the county in which such violation occurred or if the violation
     5  occurred in New York city, to the city of New York, to be used  by  such
     6  city for the New York city department of transportation's bicycle safety
     7  outreach program.
     8    § 3. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
     9  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.