Bill Text: NY S01271 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Increases the fines for dumping or plowing snow onto handicapped parking spaces.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2022-06-02 - SUBSTITUTED BY A9702B [S01271 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S01271-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         1271--A
            Cal. No. 235

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                     January 8, 2021
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        Introduced  by Sens. BROOKS, ADDABBO, GAUGHRAN, REICHLIN-MELNICK -- read
          twice and ordered printed, and when printed to  be  committed  to  the
          Committee  on Transportation -- recommitted to the Committee on Trans-
          portation in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- reported favora-
          bly from said committee, ordered to first and second  report,  ordered
          to  a  third  reading, passed by Senate and delivered to the Assembly,
          recalled, vote reconsidered, restored to third  reading,  amended  and
          ordered reprinted, retaining its place in the order of third reading

        AN  ACT  to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to increasing
          the fines for dumping snow or plowing onto handicapped parking places

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

     1    Section  1.  Section 1203-e of the vehicle and traffic law, as amended
     2  by chapter 65 of the laws of 1996, is amended to read as follows:
     3    § 1203-e. Dumping or plowing snow onto parking places for  handicapped
     4  prohibited.  [Any] 1. Except as otherwise provided in subdivision two of
     5  this section, any person who knowingly dumps  or  shovels  snow  onto  a
     6  parking  place for handicapped persons rendering such place unusable for
     7  parking purposes shall be subject to a fine of twenty-five  dollars  for
     8  the first offense and a fine not to exceed one hundred dollars for every
     9  offense  thereafter.  However,  a  local or municipal government may, by
    10  local law or ordinance, establish fines higher than those established in
    11  this [section] subdivision, but in no instance shall  the  fines  exceed
    12  fifty  dollars  for  the  first  offense  or two hundred dollars for the
    13  second or subsequent offense.
    14    2. Notwithstanding the provisions of subdivision one of this  section,
    15  any firm, corporation, partnership or association engaged in the conduct
    16  of  any  business, trade or commerce or in the furnishing of any service
    17  in this state who knowingly dumps, shovels or plows snow onto a  parking
    18  place  for handicapped persons rendering such place unusable for parking
    19  purposes shall be subject to a fine of one hundred  twenty-five  dollars

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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        S. 1271--A                          2

     1  for the first offense and a fine not to exceed two hundred fifty dollars
     2  for  every  offense thereafter. However, a local or municipal government
     3  may, by local law or ordinance, establish fines higher than those estab-
     4  lished  in  this  subdivision, but in no instance shall the fines exceed
     5  two hundred fifty dollars for the first offense or  four  hundred  fifty
     6  dollars for the second or subsequent offense.
     7    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.