Provides a fine of one thousand dollars for a person responsible for a trailer or semitrailer parked or left unattended in a city with a population of one million or more; makes certain exceptions.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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9735--A
IN ASSEMBLY
March 28, 2022
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Introduced by M. of A. HYNDMAN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Transportation -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to a fine for
parked or unattended semitrailers or trailers on streets of 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:
1 Section 1. Paragraph 2 of subdivision (b) of section 1204 of the vehi-
2 cle and traffic law, as amended by chapter 193 of the laws of 1974, is
3 amended and two new paragraphs 3 and 4 are added to read as follows:
4 2. In any city with a population of one million or more, whenever any
5 police officer, or any person designated by the commissioner [of traf-
6 fic], finds a semitrailer or trailer without a tractor or towing vehicle
7 attached, parked or unattended on any city street, such officer or
8 person designated by the commissioner [of traffic] is hereby authorized
9 to provide for the removal of such semitrailer or trailer to a garage,
10 automobile pound or other place of safety.
11 3. The owner of a semitrailer or trailer without a tractor or towing
12 vehicle attached, parked or unattended on any city street, shall be
13 subject to a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars.
14 4. If a semitrailer or trailer without a tractor or towing vehicle
15 attached is parked and left unattended on any street in a city with a
16 population of one million or more while it is used for film or tele-
17 vision production, the owner of such semitrailer or trailer shall not be
18 subject to the fine as provided in paragraph three of this subdivision,
19 provided that such semitrailer or trailer is parked in accordance with
20 the requirements of any permit issued by such city relating to the use
21 of semitrailers or trailers being used in connection with film or tele-
22 vision production.
23 § 2. Subdivision 2 of section 237 of the vehicle and traffic law, as
24 amended by chapter 458 of the laws of 2010, is amended to read as
25 follows:
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 2. To provide for penalties other than imprisonment for (a) parking
2 violations in accordance with a schedule of monetary fines and penal-
3 ties, provided however, that monetary penalties shall not exceed fifty
4 dollars for each parking violation other than (i) in a city with a popu-
5 lation of one million or more, violations committed in spaces where
6 stopping or standing is prohibited for which monetary penalties shall
7 not exceed one hundred dollars and, (ii) handicapped parking violations
8 for which monetary penalties shall not exceed one hundred fifty dollars;
9 and (b) abandoned vehicle violations, except in a city with a population
10 of one million or more, provided however, that monetary penalties shall
11 not be less than two hundred fifty dollars nor more than one thousand
12 dollars for each abandoned vehicle violation; and (c) a city with a
13 population of one million or more may impose a monetary penalty of up to
14 [two hundred fifty dollars for a first offense and up to five hundred
15 dollars for subsequent offenses within a six month period] one thousand
16 dollars for tractor-trailer combinations, tractors, truck trailers and
17 semi-trailers parked overnight on streets in residential neighborhoods;
18 § 3. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
19 have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
20 repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation of
21 this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and completed
22 on or before such effective date.