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2019-2020 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
January 16, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. VANEL -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Transportation -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
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] EIGHT 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
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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of one million or more, provided however, that monetary penalties shall
not be less than two hundred fifty dollars nor more than one thousand
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] EIGHT 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 immediately.