STATE OF NEW YORK
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4599
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 4, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. CUNNINGHAM -- read once and referred 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:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 237 of the vehicle and traffic
2 law, as amended by chapter 458 of the laws of 2010, is amended to read
3 as follows:
4 2. To provide for penalties other than imprisonment for (a) parking
5 violations in accordance with a schedule of monetary fines and penal-
6 ties, provided however, that monetary penalties shall not exceed [fifty]
7 one hundred dollars for each parking violation other than (i) in a city
8 with a population of one million or more, violations committed in spaces
9 where stopping or standing is prohibited for which monetary penalties
10 shall not exceed one hundred dollars and, (ii) handicapped parking
11 violations for which monetary penalties shall not exceed one hundred
12 fifty dollars; and (b) abandoned vehicle violations, except in a city
13 with a population of one million or more, provided however, that mone-
14 tary penalties shall not be less than two hundred fifty dollars nor more
15 than one thousand dollars for each abandoned vehicle violation; and (c)
16 a city with a population of one million or more may impose a monetary
17 penalty of up to two hundred fifty dollars for a first offense and up to
18 five hundred dollars for subsequent offenses within a six month period
19 for tractor-trailer combinations, tractors, truck trailers and semi-
20 trailers parked overnight on streets in residential neighborhoods;
21 § 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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