Assembly Bill A9654

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Relates to increasing the fines for parking violations

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Current Bill Status - Stricken

  • 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-A9654 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S8727
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §237, V & T L

2023-A9654 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Increases the maximum amount of fines for parking violations from fifty dollars to sixty-five dollars for a first violation, eighty-five dollars for a second parking violation, and one hundred dollars for each subsequent violation.

2023-A9654 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9654
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              March 27, 2024
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. BURGOS -- 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]
 SIXTY-FIVE  DOLLARS  FOR  A FIRST PARKING VIOLATION, EIGHTY-FIVE DOLLARS
 FOR A SECOND PARKING VIOLATION, AND ONE HUNDRED dollars for each  SUBSE-
 QUENT  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 mone-
 tary penalties shall not exceed one hundred fifty dollars; and (b) aban-
 doned  vehicle  violations,  except  in  a city with a population of one
 million or more, provided however, that monetary 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 over-
 night 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.
                                                            LBD14320-02-4

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