Assembly Bill A9031

                             
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                                   9031
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 5, 2024
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 Introduced by M. of A. SIMONE -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Transportation
 
 AN  ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law and the administrative code
   of the city of New York, in relation to increasing fines for  repeated
   parking violations
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. 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,
 PROVIDED THAT THE MAXIMUM PENALTIES SET FORTH IN THIS PARAGRAPH  MAY  BE
 INCREASED  BY  ONE HUNDRED PERCENT FOR MORE THAN TEN VIOLATIONS WITHIN A
 TWENTY-FOUR MONTH PERIOD AND AN ADDITIONAL ONE HUNDRED  PERCENT  OF  THE
 MAXIMUM  PENALTY FOR EACH SUBSEQUENT VIOLATION WITHIN TWENTY-FOUR MONTHS
 UP TO FIVE HUNDRED PERCENT OF THE MAXIMUM FINE SET FORTH IN  THIS  PARA-
 GRAPH;  and  (b)  abandoned  vehicle violations, except in a city with a
 population 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 dollars for a first offense and up to
 five  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;
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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   § 2. Subdivision b of section 19-203 of the administrative code of the
 city of New York, as amended by section 2 of part B of chapter 93 of the
 laws of 2002, is amended to read as follows:
   b.  To  provide  for  penalties  other  than  imprisonment for parking
 violations, provided however, that monetary penalties shall  not  exceed
 fifty  dollars for each parking violation, provided that monetary penal-
 ties shall not exceed one hundred dollars  for  each  parking  violation
 committed  in  a  space  where  stopping  or  standing is prohibited and
 provided, further, that monetary penalties shall not exceed one  hundred
 fifty  dollars  for  each  handicapped  parking  violation,  AND FURTHER
 PROVIDED THAT THE MAXIMUM PENALTIES SET FORTH IN THIS SUBDIVISION MAY BE
 INCREASED BY ONE HUNDRED PERCENT FOR MORE THAN TEN VIOLATIONS  WITHIN  A
 TWENTY-FOUR  MONTH  PERIOD  AND AN ADDITIONAL ONE HUNDRED PERCENT OF THE
 MAXIMUM PENALTY FOR EACH SUBSEQUENT VIOLATION WITHIN TWENTY-FOUR  MONTHS
 UP  TO FIVE HUNDRED PERCENT OF THE MAXIMUM FINE SET FORTH IN THIS SUBDI-
 VISION;
   § 3. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day  after  it  shall
 have become a law.