The New York State Senate

 
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                                   3817
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 28, 2021
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 Introduced  by M. of A. VANEL -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Transportation
 
 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  amended  by  local  law
 number  74 of the city of New York for the year 2019, 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 [$250] $400.  Any such subse-
 quent violation of this section by the same owner, as defined  in  para-
 graph  a of subdivision 1 of section 239 of the vehicle and traffic law,
 within a six month period shall be punishable  by  a  monetary  fine  of
 [$500] $800.
   §  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
 of  one million or more, provided however, that monetary penalties shall

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

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 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.