Bill Text: NY A01844 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to monetary penalties that a parking violations bureau may impose for illegally idling the engine of a motor vehicle.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-01-04 - referred to transportation [A01844 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-A01844-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         1844
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   January 12, 2011
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       Introduced  by M. of A. ROSENTHAL, GOTTFRIED, MENG, ROBINSON, KELLNER --
         Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. COOK, SCHIMEL, WEISENBERG -- 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 monetary  penalties  that  the
         parking  violations  bureau may impose for illegally idling the engine
         of a motor vehicle
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 2 of section 237 of the vehi-
    2  cle and traffic law, as amended by chapter 458 of the laws of  2010,  is
    3  amended to read as follows:
    4    (a) parking violations in accordance with a schedule of monetary fines
    5  and  penalties,  provided  however,  that  monetary  penalties shall not
    6  exceed fifty dollars for each parking violation other than (i) in a city
    7  with a population of one million or more, violations committed in spaces
    8  where stopping or standing is prohibited for  which  monetary  penalties
    9  shall  not exceed one hundred dollars and VIOLATIONS OF A RESTRICTION ON
   10  IDLING THE ENGINE OF A MOTOR VEHICLE WHILE PARKING, STANDING,  OR  STOP-
   11  PING  FOR  WHICH  MONETARY  PENALTIES SHALL NOT EXCEED ONE HUNDRED FIFTY
   12  DOLLARS, AND (ii) handicapped  parking  violations  for  which  monetary
   13  penalties shall not exceed one hundred fifty dollars; and
   14    S 2. Subdivision b of section 19-203 of the administrative code of the
   15  city of New York, as amended by section 2 of part B of chapter 93 of the
   16  laws of 2002, is amended to read as follows:
   17    b.  To  provide  for  penalties  other  than  imprisonment for parking
   18  violations, provided however, that monetary penalties shall  not  exceed
   19  (1)  fifty  dollars  for each parking violation, [provided that monetary
   20  penalties shall not exceed] (2) one hundred  dollars  for  each  parking
   21  violation,  OTHER  THAN  A  RESTRICTION  ON IDLING THE ENGINE OF A MOTOR
   22  VEHICLE, committed in a space where stopping or standing is  prohibited,
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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       A. 1844                             2
    1  (3)  ONE  HUNDRED  FIFTY  DOLLARS FOR EACH VIOLATION OF A RESTRICTION ON
    2  IDLING THE ENGINE OF A MOTOR VEHICLE WHILE PARKING, STANDING,  OR  STOP-
    3  PING,  and [provided, further, that monetary penalties shall not exceed]
    4  (4) one hundred fifty dollars for each handicapped parking violation;
    5    S 3. This act shall take effect immediately.