S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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2504
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
I N S E N A T E
January 21, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. GOUNARDES -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation
AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to increasing
penalties imposed on owners for failure of an operator to comply with
posted speed limits in the city of New York
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Subdivision (e) of section 1180-b of the vehicle and traf-
fic law, as added by chapter 189 of the laws of 2013, is amended to
read as follows:
(e) An owner liable for a violation of subdivision (b), (c), (d), (f)
or (g) of section eleven hundred eighty of this article pursuant to a
demonstration program established pursuant to this section shall be
liable for monetary penalties in accordance with a schedule of fines and
penalties to be promulgated by the parking violations bureau of the city
of New York. The liability of the owner pursuant to this section shall
not exceed [fifty dollars for each violation] THE DOLLAR AMOUNTS
PRESCRIBED HEREIN FOR THE FOLLOWING NUMBER OF VIOLATIONS, COMMITTED
WITHIN A PERIOD OF TWO YEARS: FIFTY DOLLARS FOR THE FIRST TWO
VIOLATIONS, ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS FOR A THIRD VIOLATION, ONE HUNDRED TWEN-
TY-FIVE DOLLARS FOR A FOURTH VIOLATION, ONE HUNDRED FIFTY DOLLARS FOR A
FIFTH VIOLATION, TWO HUNDRED DOLLARS FOR A SIXTH VIOLATION, AND TWO
HUNDRED FIFTY DOLLARS FOR A SEVENTH AND ANY SUBSEQUENT VIOLATIONS;
provided, however, that such parking violations bureau may provide for
an additional penalty not in excess of twenty-five dollars for each
violation for the failure to respond to a notice of liability within the
prescribed time period.
§ 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
have become a law; provided that the amendments to section 1180-b of the
vehicle and traffic law made by section one of this act shall not affect
the expiration of such section and shall expire and be deemed repealed
therewith.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.