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Senate Bill S4516

2011-2012 Legislative Session

Increases the fines for dumping snow onto handicapped parking spaces

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2011-S4516 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A6595
Current Committee:
Senate Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง1203-e, V & T L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2013-2014: S305, A783
2015-2016: S244, A2183
2017-2018: S4382, A8640
2019-2020: S1643, A148
2021-2022: S1271, A9702

2011-S4516 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Increases the fines for dumping snow onto handicapped parking spaces.

2011-S4516 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2011-S4516 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  4516

                       2011-2012 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                              April 8, 2011
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen. MARTINS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
  printed to be committed to the Committee 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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