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Assembly Bill A8640

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Increases the fines for dumping snow onto handicapped parking spaces

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2017-A8640 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S4382
Current Committee:
Assembly Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §1203-e, V & T L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2011-2012: A6595, S4516
2013-2014: A783, S305
2015-2016: A2183, S244
2019-2020: A148, S1643
2021-2022: A9702, S1271

2017-A8640 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Increases the fines for dumping snow onto handicapped parking spaces.

2017-A8640 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8640
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             September 1, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. D'URSO -- 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 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:
   § 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  TWENTY-FIVE
 dollars for the first offense and a fine not to exceed [one hundred] TWO
 HUNDRED  FIFTY 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
 hundred] FOUR  HUNDRED  FIFTY  dollars  for  the  second  or  subsequent
 offense.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD09887-04-7

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