Assembly Bill A10083

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Relates to increasing fines for parking violations

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Current Bill Status - In Assembly Committee

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

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2023-A10083 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §237, V & T L

2023-A10083 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to increasing fines for parking violations from fifty to one hundred dollars.

2023-A10083 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   10083
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                May 3, 2024
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  CUNNINGHAM  -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on Transportation
 
 AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation  to  increasing
   the fines for parking violations
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 237 of  the  vehicle  and  traffic
 law,  as  amended by chapter 458 of the laws of 2010, is amended to read
 as follows:
   2. To provide for penalties other than imprisonment  for  (a)  parking
 violations  in  accordance  with a schedule of monetary fines and penal-
 ties, provided however, that monetary penalties shall not exceed [fifty]
 ONE HUNDRED dollars for each parking violation other than (i) in a  city
 with a population of one million or more, violations committed in spaces
 where  stopping  or  standing is prohibited for which monetary penalties
 shall not exceed one  hundred  dollars  and,  (ii)  handicapped  parking
 violations  for  which  monetary  penalties shall not exceed one hundred
 fifty dollars; and (b) abandoned vehicle violations, except  in  a  city
 with  a  population of one million or more, provided however, that mone-
 tary penalties shall not be less than two hundred fifty dollars nor more
 than one thousand dollars for each abandoned vehicle violation; and  (c)
 a  city  with  a population of one million or more may impose a monetary
 penalty of up to two hundred fifty dollars for a first offense and up to
 five hundred dollars for subsequent offenses within a six  month  period
 for  tractor-trailer  combinations,  tractors,  truck trailers and semi-
 trailers parked overnight on streets in residential neighborhoods;
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD14878-01-4

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