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Senate Bill S3222

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Requires parking spaces reserved for handicapped persons to be marked as tow-away zones

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2009-S3222 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง1203-c, V & T L
Versions Introduced in 2011-2012 Legislative Session:
S255

2009-S3222 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires parking spaces clearly identified for the use by handicapped persons to be marked as tow-away zones.

2009-S3222 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2009-S3222 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  3222

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                             March 12, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sens.  MAZIARZ, GRIFFO, LARKIN -- read twice and ordered
  printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on  Trans-
  portation

AN  ACT  to  amend  the  vehicle and traffic law, in relation to marking
  parking spaces reserved for handicapped persons as tow-away zones

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1.  Paragraph  (a)  of subdivision 2 of section 1203-c of the
vehicle and traffic law, as amended by chapter 199 of the laws of  2005,
is amended to read as follows:
  (a)  The  parking spaces designated pursuant to the provisions of this
section shall be clearly identified for use by handicapped persons which
designation shall include conspicuous and  permanently  installed  above
grade  signs  which display the international symbol of access and which
shall be positioned from the parking space surface at a  height  of  not
less  than five feet nor more than seven feet and may include the use of
blue painted lines or markings. Such parking spaces also [may] SHALL  be
marked as tow-away zones.
  S  2. This act shall take effect one year after it shall have become a
law.




 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD06135-01-9

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