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                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 9, 2019
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 Introduced  by  M.  of A. D'URSO, ORTIZ, DICKENS, McDONOUGH -- 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.
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