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Senate Bill S7267

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Allows certain defenses to parking violations despite entering of a default judgment

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2025-S7267 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A1994
Current Committee:
Senate Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §238, V & T L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A1524
2011-2012: A907
2013-2014: A1530
2015-2016: A4752
2017-2018: A7041
2019-2020: A3371
2021-2022: S7200, A4046
2023-2024: S4194, A2546

2025-S7267 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Allows certain defenses to parking violations despite entering of a default judgment.

2025-S7267 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S7267 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7267
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               April 7, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. SANDERS -- 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  parking
   infractions
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 2-a  of  section  238  of  the
 vehicle and traffic law, as added by chapter 224 of the laws of 1995, is
 amended to read as follows:
   (b) If any information which is required to be inserted on a notice of
 violation  is  omitted  from  the  notice of violation, misdescribed, or
 illegible, the violation shall be dismissed  [upon  application  of  the
 person charged with the violation].
   §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
 have become a law and shall apply to notices of violation issued on  and
 after such date.
 
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD05495-01-5

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