Assembly Bill A1994

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Allows certain defenses to parking violations despite entering of a default judgment

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Current Bill Status - On Floor Calendar

  • 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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2025-A1994 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S7267
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §238, V & T L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A1524
2011-2012: A907
2013-2014: A1530
2015-2016: A4752
2017-2018: A7041
2019-2020: A3371
2021-2022: A4046, S7200
2023-2024: A2546, S4194

2025-A1994 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Allows certain defenses to parking violations despite entering of a default judgment.

2025-A1994 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1994
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 14, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  COLTON,  RIVERA,  CRUZ,  DeSTEFANO, HYNDMAN,
   WILLIAMS, TAYLOR, JACOBSON, SEAWRIGHT, BENDETT --  Multi-Sponsored  by
   --  M.  of  A. COOK, LEVENBERG, RAMOS -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on Transportation
 
 AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic  law,  in  relation  to  parking
   infractions

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 2-a  of  section  238  of  the
 vehicle and traffic law, as added by chapter 224 of the laws of 1995, is
 amended to read as follows:
   (b) If any information which is required to be inserted on a notice of
 violation  is  omitted  from  the  notice of violation, misdescribed, or
 illegible, the violation shall be dismissed  [upon  application  of  the
 person charged with the violation].
   §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
 have become a law and shall apply to notices of violation issued on  and
 after such date.
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD05495-01-5

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