The New York State Senate

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                                 1658--A

                       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.