Bill Text: NY S03215 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended

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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 2-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO CITIES [S03215 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S03215-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         3215--A
            Cal. No. 261
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    February 4, 2019
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  COMRIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Cities -- reported favora-
          bly from said committee, ordered to first and second  report,  ordered
          to a third reading, amended and ordered reprinted, retaining its place
          in the order of third reading
        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
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  for which monetary penalties shall not exceed one hundred fifty dollars;
     2  and (b) abandoned vehicle violations, except in a city with a population
     3  of one million or more, provided however, that monetary penalties  shall
     4  not  be  less  than two hundred fifty dollars nor more than one thousand
     5  dollars for each abandoned vehicle violation; and  (c)  a  city  with  a
     6  population of one million or more may impose a monetary penalty of up to
     7  [two  hundred  fifty] four hundred dollars for a first offense and up to
     8  [five] eight hundred dollars for subsequent offenses within a six  month
     9  period  for  tractor-trailer  combinations, tractors, truck trailers and
    10  semi-trailers parked overnight on streets in residential neighborhoods;
    11    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.