Relates to violations and a mandatory surcharge for parking in a bicycle lane which shall be paid to the clerk of the court of administrative tribunal that made the determination of liability.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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1236
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 9, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. SIMON, GLICK, SIMONE -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M.
of A. SEAWRIGHT -- read once and referred to the Committee on Trans-
portation
AN ACT to amend the administrative code of the city of New York and the
vehicle and traffic law, in relation to violations for parking in a
bicycle lane
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision b of section 19-203 of the administrative code
2 of the city of New York, as amended by section 2 of part B of chapter 93
3 of the laws of 2002, is amended to read as follows:
4 b. To provide for penalties other than imprisonment for parking
5 violations, provided however, that monetary penalties shall not exceed
6 fifty dollars for each parking violation, provided that monetary penal-
7 ties shall not exceed one hundred dollars for each parking violation
8 committed in a space where stopping or standing is prohibited and
9 provided, further, that monetary penalties shall not exceed one hundred
10 fifty dollars for each handicapped parking violation or violation for
11 parking in a bicycle lane;
12 § 2. The vehicle and traffic law is amended by adding a new section
13 1809-f to read as follows:
14 § 1809-f. Mandatory surcharge required for certain violations relating
15 to parking in a bicycle lane. 1. Notwithstanding any other provision of
16 law, whenever proceedings in an administrative tribunal or a court
17 result in a finding of liability, or conviction for a violation of any
18 statute, local law or ordinance or rule involving the parking, stopping
19 or standing of motor vehicles in a bicycle lane, there shall be levied,
20 in addition to any sentence or other surcharge required or permitted by
21 law, an additional surcharge of thirty dollars.
22 2. The mandatory surcharge provided for in subdivision one of this
23 section shall be paid to the clerk of the court or administrative tribu-
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 nal that made the determination of liability. Within the first ten days
2 of the month next succeeding the collection of such surcharge, the
3 collecting authority shall pay such surcharge to the chief fiscal offi-
4 cer of the county in which such violation occurred or if the violation
5 occurred in New York city, to the city of New York, to be used by such
6 city for the New York city department of transportation's bicycle safety
7 outreach program.
8 § 3. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
9 ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
