Bill Text: NY S01643 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Increases the fines for dumping snow onto handicapped parking spaces.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2020-03-03 - referred to transportation [S01643 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-S01643-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1643 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 15, 2019 ___________ Introduced by Sen. BROOKS -- 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 dumping snow 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 snow onto parking places for handicapped prohibited. 4 Any person who knowingly dumps or shovels snow onto a parking place for 5 handicapped persons rendering such place unusable for parking purposes 6 shall be subject to a fine of [twenty-five] one hundred twenty-five 7 dollars for the first offense and a fine not to exceed [one hundred] two 8 hundred fifty dollars for every offense thereafter. However, a local or 9 municipal government may, by local law or ordinance, establish fines 10 higher than those established in this section, but in no instance shall 11 the fines exceed two hundred fifty dollars for the first offense or [two12hundred] four hundred fifty dollars for the second or subsequent 13 offense. 14 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD00686-01-9
