Senate Bill S1679

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Establishes the parking protection act

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Consumer Protection Committee


  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2021-S1679 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A6998
Current Committee:
Senate Consumer Protection
Law Section:
General Business Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §399-v, Gen Bus L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: S6783, A8461
2023-2024: S3376, A1444

2021-S1679 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Establishes the parking protection act; provides that parking facilities shall display a sign stating the current applicable price of parking at such facilities; includes provisions on when a motor vehicle may be towed or immobilized and provides a limit to the cost of towing and storage of a vehicle.

2021-S1679 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2021-S1679 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1679
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 14, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. SKOUFIS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Consumer Protection
 
 AN ACT to amend the general business law, in  relation  to  establishing
   the parking protection act
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. This act shall be known and may be cited  as  the  "parking
 protection act".
   §  2.  The section heading, subdivisions 2 and 3, and paragraph (i) of
 subdivision 7 of section 399-v of the general business law, the  section
 heading and subdivision 2 as amended, and paragraph (i) of subdivision 7
 as added by chapter 328 of the laws of 2008 and subdivision 3 as amended
 by chapter 655 of the laws of 1997, are amended to read as follows:
   Parking  facilities; towing AND IMMOBILIZATION of vehicles, posting of
 notices.
   2. (A) Every parking facility shall display prominently a  conspicuous
 notice stating the name, address and telephone number of the operator of
 the  parking  facility  together  with  the  name, address and telephone
 number of any individual or entity authorized to tow from  such  parking
 facility  any motor vehicle or the name, address and telephone number of
 any individual or entity authorized to place a device designed to  immo-
 bilize  any  motor  vehicle  in such parking facility. Such notice shall
 also state that unauthorized vehicles will be towed  OR  IMMOBILIZED  at
 the  vehicle owner's expense AND SHALL STATE THE COST FOR THE TOWING AND
 STORAGE OR FOR THE IMMOBILIZATION.
   (B) ALL PARKING FACILITIES SHALL  DISPLAY  PROMINENTLY  A  CONSPICUOUS
 SIGN,  NOT LESS THAN THREE FEET BY FOUR FEET IN SIZE, THAT UNAMBIGUOUSLY
 STATES THE CURRENTLY APPLICABLE PRICE OF PARKING AT THE FACILITY AND THE
 PERIOD OF TIME DURING WHICH THE PRICE IS VALID. A HIGHER PRICE SHALL NOT
 TAKE EFFECT UNLESS A SIGN PROVIDING NOTICE OF THE CHANGE  IN  PRICE  HAS
 BEEN  POSTED  AT  LEAST  ONE  HOUR PRIOR TO THE TIME AT WHICH THE HIGHER
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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