NY State Senate Bill 2025-S6877

Senate Bill S6877

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Increases the fine for tractor-trailer combinations that park on residential streets overnight

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	Assembly Actions - Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE
May 01, 2025	advanced to third reading
Apr 30, 2025	2nd report cal.
Apr 29, 2025	1st report cal.734
Mar 25, 2025	referred to cities 1

Votes

- Apr 29, 2025 - Cities 1 Committee Vote
  S6877
  
  7
  
  Aye
  
  0
  
  Nay
  
  0
  
  Aye with Reservations
  
  0
  
  Absent
  
  0
  
  Excused
  
  0
  
  Abstained
  - - Cities 1 Committee Vote: Apr 29, 2025
      
      aye (7)
      
      Addabbo Jr.
      
      Chan
      
      Cleare
      
      Lanza
      
      Persaud
      
      Salazar
      
      Sepúlveda

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2025-S6877 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A8005
Law Section:: New York City Administrative Code
Laws Affected:: Amd §19-170, NYC Ad Cd; amd §237, V & T L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:: 2017-2018: S5465, A8363
2019-2020: S3215, A1658
2021-2022: S3259, A3817
2023-2024: S519, A1186

2025-S6877 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides for increased fines for overnight parking of tractor-trailer combinations, tractors, truck trailers and semi-trailers on residential streets in the city of New York.

2025-S6877 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                 
BILL NUMBER: S6877

SPONSOR: COMRIE
 
TITLE OF BILL:

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

 
PURPOSE:

To reduce overcrowding and parking on residential streets by commercial
vehicles.

 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

Section 1 amends the Administrative Code of the City of New York to
impose a $400 fine for a first violation of this section by any commer-
cial vehicle, including tractor-trailer combinations, truck trailer or
semi-trailer.. Any subsequent violation of this section by the same
owner within a six month period shall receive a monetary fine of $800.

Section 2 amends the vehicle and traffic law to provide that in a City
of a million or more, any commercial vehicle that violates the law may
receive a monetary fine of $400 for a first offense and $800 for any
subsequent offense within six months.

Section 3 provides for immediate enactment.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

Southeast Queens sits between two of the busiest airports in the coun-
try, JFK and LaGaurdia, and hosts a large import-export businesses that
distributes food, materials, and supplies to local establishments from
all around the world. Southeast Queens takes pride in the fact that we
are able to have such a large impact on the economic growth of our City.
Unfortunately, hosting these businesses and airports has put a strain on
our communities. While commercial trucks have a place to pick up and
drop off the supplies they are delivering, there is no place for them to
park. So between overnight shifts, they reside in our residential commu-
nities taking up spaces in front of houses, not just creating an eyesore
but it is also an environmental hazard and troublesome for families.

Southeast Queens is designated as an extreme transit dessert by the
federal government, where it takes residents an hour and a half to get
to midtown Manhattan by public transportation. That is why families here
rely on cars for their everyday needs. Many of them also have more than
one vehicle, so they need the space near their homes to easily drop
their children off at school, run errands, and get to a from work.
Needless to say, this becomes more difficult when a 18 wheeler is parked
in front of your house. The truck drivers also leave their air condi-
tioners or heaters on as they sleep overnight.

This continues to be one of the major issues many offices and Community
Boards receive complaints about, and which civic organizations and
others discuss at their meetings. This legislation will reduce this
hazard if it becomes law, truck drivers will think twice before parking
on residential streets, enhancing the quality of life for residents of
Southeast Queens.
 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

2024: S519/ A1186- Passed Senate

2022: S3259, passed senate. Passed Senate

2019-20 Session. New Bill in

2017: S.5465.

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

None to the State.

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect immediately.

2025-S6877 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6877
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              March 25, 2025
                                ___________
 
 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.
                                                            LBD04887-01-5

 S. 6877                             2
 
 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.

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