S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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4599
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
February 4, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. CUNNINGHAM -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Transportation
AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to increasing
the fines for 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]
ONE HUNDRED dollars for each parking violation other than (i) in a city
with a population 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 mone-
tary 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;
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD06601-01-5
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