Senate Bill S8410

                             
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                                   8410
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               June 9, 2025
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 Introduced  by  Sen.  COMRIE  -- (at request of the NYC Finance) -- read
   twice and ordered printed, and when printed to  be  committed  to  the
   Committee on Rules
 
 AN  ACT  to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to notices of
   violation returnable to a parking violations bureau in a city  with  a
   population of one million or more

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 238 of  the  vehicle  and  traffic
 law,  as  amended by chapter 224 of the laws of 1995, is amended to read
 as follows:
   2. A notice of violation shall be served personally upon the  operator
 of a motor vehicle who is present at the time of service, and [his] SUCH
 OPERATOR'S  name, together with the plate designation and the plate type
 as shown by the registration plates of said vehicle and  the  expiration
 date,  PROVIDED  THAT IN A CITY WITH A POPULATION OF ONE MILLION PERSONS
 OR MORE, IF SUCH NOTICE IS SERVED UPON THE OPERATOR OF  A  VEHICLE  THAT
 HAS  NO  SUCH REGISTRATION PLATE ISSUED BY THE COMMISSIONER, THE COMMIS-
 SIONER'S AGENT, OR THE EQUIVALENT OFFICIAL OR AGENT FROM ANOTHER  STATE,
 TERRITORY,  DISTRICT, PROVINCE, NATION OR OTHER JURISDICTION, OR IF SUCH
 REGISTRATION PLATE IS CONCEALED OR OBSCURED, THE VEHICLE  IDENTIFICATION
 NUMBER  MAY BE INSERTED IN SUCH NOTICE IN PLACE OF THE PLATE DESIGNATION
 AND PLATE TYPE; the make or model, and, PROVIDED THAT  A  BODY  TYPE  IS
 INDICATED  ON THE REGISTRATION STICKER OF SAID VEHICLE, THE body type of
 said vehicle; a description of the charged violation, including but  not
 limited  to  a  reference to the applicable traffic rule or provision of
 this chapter; information as to the days and hours the  applicable  rule
 or  provision  of  this  chapter  is  in effect, unless always in effect
 pursuant to rule or this chapter and where appropriate the word ALL when
 the days and/or hours in effect are everyday and/or twenty-four hours  a
 day;  the meter number for a meter violation, where appropriate; and the
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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 date, time and particular place of occurrence of the charged  violation,
 shall  be inserted therein. A mere listing of a meter number in cases of
 charged meter violations shall not be deemed to constitute a  sufficient
 description  of  a  particular  place of occurrence for purposes of this
 subdivision. The notice of violation shall be served upon the  owner  of
 the  motor  vehicle  if  the  operator  is not present, by affixing such
 notice to said vehicle in a conspicuous place. Whenever such  notice  is
 so affixed, in lieu of inserting the name of the person charged with the
 violation  in  the space provided for the identification of said person,
 the words "owner of the vehicle bearing license" may be inserted  to  be
 followed  by the plate designation and plate type as shown by the regis-
 tration plates of  said  vehicle  together  with  the  expiration  date,
 PROVIDED  THAT,  IN  A  CITY WITH A POPULATION OF ONE MILLION PERSONS OR
 MORE, IF SUCH NOTICE IS AFFIXED TO A VEHICLE THAT HAS NO SUCH  REGISTRA-
 TION  PLATE ISSUED BY THE COMMISSIONER, THE COMMISSIONER'S AGENT, OR THE
 EQUIVALENT OFFICIAL OR AGENT FROM ANOTHER  STATE,  TERRITORY,  DISTRICT,
 PROVINCE, NATION OR OTHER JURISDICTION, OR IF SUCH REGISTRATION PLATE IS
 CONCEALED OR OBSCURED, THE VEHICLE IDENTIFICATION NUMBER MAY BE INSERTED
 IN  SUCH  NOTICE  IN  PLACE OF THE PLATE DESIGNATION AND PLATE TYPE, AND
 SUCH NOTICE SHALL INDICATE THE REASON  FOR  INSERTION  OF  SUCH  VEHICLE
 IDENTIFICATION  NUMBER, AND SUPPORTING PHOTOGRAPHIC DOCUMENTATION MAY BE
 PROVIDED; the make or model, and, PROVIDED THAT A BODY TYPE IS INDICATED
 ON THE REGISTRATION STICKER OF SAID VEHICLE, THE body type of said vehi-
 cle; a description of the charged violation, including but  not  limited
 to a reference to the applicable traffic rule or provision of this chap-
 ter;  information  as  to  the  days  and  hours  the applicable rule or
 provision of this chapter is in effect unless always in effect  pursuant
 to rule or this chapter and where appropriate the word ALL when the days
 and/or hours in effect are every day and/or twenty-four hours a day; the
 meter number for a meter violation where appropriate; and the date, time
 and particular place of occurrence of the charged violation.  Service of
 the  notice of violation, or a duplicate thereof by affixation as herein
 provided shall have the same force and effect and shall  be  subject  to
 the  same  penalties  for  disregard  thereof  as  though  the  same was
 personally served with the name of the person charged with the violation
 inserted therein.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.