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Senate Bill S948

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to increasing the fines for parking violations

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2025-S948 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §237, V & T L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
S8727

2025-S948 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Increases the maximum amount of fines for parking violations from fifty dollars to sixty-five dollars for a first violation, eighty-five dollars for a second parking violation, and one hundred dollars for each subsequent violation.

2025-S948 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S948 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    948
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 8, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sens.  JACKSON, SEPULVEDA, PERSAUD, CLEARE -- 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
   the fines for parking violations

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. 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]
 SIXTY-FIVE DOLLARS FOR A FIRST PARKING  VIOLATION,  EIGHTY-FIVE  DOLLARS
 FOR  A SECOND PARKING VIOLATION, AND ONE HUNDRED dollars for each SUBSE-
 QUENT parking violation other than (i) in a city with  a  population  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 mone-
 tary penalties shall not exceed one hundred fifty dollars; and (b) aban-
 doned vehicle violations, except in a city  with  a  population  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 dollars for a first offense and up to five hundred dollars
 for  subsequent  offenses  within a six month period for tractor-trailer
 combinations, tractors, truck trailers and  semi-trailers  parked  over-
 night on streets in residential neighborhoods;
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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