Assembly Bill A6595

2011-2012 Legislative Session

Increases the fines for dumping snow onto handicapped parking spaces

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
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    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2011-A6595 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S4516
Current Committee:
Assembly Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง1203-e, V & T L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2013-2014: A783, S305
2015-2016: A2183, S244
2017-2018: A8640, S4382
2019-2020: A148, S1643
2021-2022: A9702, S1271

2011-A6595 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Increases the fines for dumping snow onto handicapped parking spaces.

2011-A6595 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  6595

                       2011-2012 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                             March 22, 2011
                               ___________

Introduced  by M. of A. SCHIMEL -- read once and referred to the Commit-
  tee 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:

  Section 1. Section 1203-e of the vehicle and traffic law,  as  amended
by chapter 65 of the laws of 1996, is amended to read as follows:
  S 1203-e. Dumping snow onto parking places for handicapped prohibited.
Any  person who knowingly dumps or shovels snow onto a parking place for
handicapped persons rendering such place unusable for  parking  purposes
shall  be  subject  to a fine of [twenty-five] ONE HUNDRED FIFTY dollars
for the first offense and a fine  not  to  exceed  [one]  THREE  hundred
dollars  for  every  offense  thereafter.  However, a local or municipal
government may, by local law or ordinance, establish fines  higher  than
those  established  in  this section, but in no instance shall the fines
exceed TWO HUNDRED fifty dollars for the first  offense  or  [two]  FIVE
hundred dollars for the second or subsequent offense.
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.





 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD10373-01-1

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