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Assembly Bill A3296

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to imposing points on a driver's license for illegally parking in a handicapped parking space

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2019-A3296 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §1203-c, V & T L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2015-2016: A7788
2017-2018: A3373

2019-A3296 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Imposes points on a driver's license for illegally parking in a handicapped parking space.

2019-A3296 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3296
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 29, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. ORTIZ, RIVERA, CUSICK -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M.
   of  A.  GALEF,  LUPARDO  -- read once and referred to the Committee on
   Transportation
 
 AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law,  in  relation  to  imposing
   points  on  a  person's license for illegally parking in a handicapped
   parking space

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1. Subdivision 4 of section 1203-c of the vehicle and traffic
 law, as amended by chapter 613 of the laws of 2003, is amended  to  read
 as follows:
   4. (A) Except as otherwise provided by local law which imposes a larg-
 er maximum fine, any person who stops, stands or parks in spaces clearly
 marked for use by the handicapped in accordance with this section, with-
 out a special vehicle identification parking permit, a special municipal
 parking  permit  or  whose motor vehicle is not registered in accordance
 with section four hundred four-a of this chapter and being used for  the
 transportation of a handicapped person; or with such permit or registra-
 tion  and  such person is not the one to whom the permit or registration
 was issued or is not transporting the person issued the permit or regis-
 tration; or any person who parks in a handicapped parking access  aisle;
 shall  be subject to a fine of not less than fifty dollars nor more than
 seventy-five dollars for the  first  offense  and  seventy-five  to  one
 hundred  fifty  dollars for the second offense occurring within a period
 of two years within the same municipality. The  arresting  or  ticketing
 officer  shall issue a summons to violators of this section. A ticketing
 officer issuing a summons pursuant to this section may provide  for  the
 removal and storage of a motor vehicle illegally parked in a handicapped
 parking space, or a handicapped parking access aisle.
   (B)  IN ADDITION TO THE FINE IMPOSED BY PARAGRAPH (A) OF THIS SUBDIVI-
 SION, EVERY PERSON CONVICTED OF A VIOLATION OF  THIS  SECTION  SHALL  BE

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

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