The New York State Senate

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                                  8363

                       2017-2018 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              June 12, 2017
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Introduced  by M. of A. VANEL -- read once and referred to the Committee
  on Transportation

AN ACT to amend the administrative code of the city of New York and  the
  vehicle  and traffic law, in relation to increasing the fine for trac-
  tor-trailer combinations that park on residential streets overnight

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

  Section  1.  Paragraph  2  of  subdivision  c of section 19-170 of the
administrative code of the city of New York, as added by chapter 458  of
the laws of 2010, is amended to read as follows:
  2. A first violation of this section, when the commercial vehicle is a
tractor-trailer  combination,  tractor,  truck  trailer or semi-trailer,
shall be punishable by a monetary  fine  of  [two  hundred  fifty]  FOUR
HUNDRED  dollars.  Any  such subsequent violation of this section by the
same owner, as defined in paragraph a of subdivision one of section  two
hundred  thirty-nine  of the vehicle and traffic law, within a six month
period shall be punishable by a monetary fine of five hundred dollars.
  § 2. 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
dollars for each parking violation other than (i) in a city with a popu-
lation  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 monetary penalties shall not exceed one hundred fifty dollars;
and (b) abandoned 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

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

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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] FOUR HUNDRED 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 overnight on streets in residential neighborhoods;
  §  3.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
have become a law.