Senate Bill S6877

                             
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                                   6877
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              March 25, 2025
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 Introduced  by  Sens.  COMRIE,  ADDABBO, LIU, STAVISKY -- read twice and
   ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on
   Cities 1
 
 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
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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 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] 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.