Bill Text: NY A01658 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended
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) 2020-01-08 - referred to transportation [A01658 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A01658-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1658--A 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 16, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. VANEL -- read once and referred to the Committee on Transportation -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee 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 added by chapter 458 of 3 the laws of 2010, is amended to read as follows: 4 2. A first violation of this section, when the commercial vehicle is a 5 tractor-trailer combination, tractor, truck trailer or semi-trailer, 6 shall be punishable by a monetary fine of [two hundred fifty] four 7 hundred dollars. Any such subsequent violation of this section by the 8 same owner, as defined in paragraph a of subdivision one of section two 9 hundred thirty-nine of the vehicle and traffic law, within a six month 10 period shall be punishable by a monetary fine of [five] eight hundred 11 dollars. 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 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD00856-02-9A. 1658--A 2 1 of one million or more, provided however, that monetary penalties shall 2 not be less than two hundred fifty dollars nor more than one thousand 3 dollars for each abandoned vehicle violation; and (c) a city with a 4 population of one million or more may impose a monetary penalty of up to 5 [two hundred fifty] four hundred dollars for a first offense and up to 6 [five] eight hundred dollars for subsequent offenses within a six month 7 period for tractor-trailer combinations, tractors, truck trailers and 8 semi-trailers parked overnight on streets in residential neighborhoods; 9 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.