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.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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948
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE(Prefiled)
January 8, 2025
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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:
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 sixty-five dollars for a first parking violation, eighty-five dollars
8 for a second parking violation, and one hundred dollars for each subse-
9 quent parking violation other than (i) in a city with a population of
10 one million or more, violations committed in spaces where stopping or
11 standing is prohibited for which monetary penalties shall not exceed one
12 hundred dollars and, (ii) handicapped parking violations for which mone-
13 tary penalties shall not exceed one hundred fifty dollars; and (b) aban-
14 doned vehicle violations, except in a city with a population of one
15 million or more, provided however, that monetary penalties shall not be
16 less than two hundred fifty dollars nor more than one thousand dollars
17 for each abandoned vehicle violation; and (c) a city with a population
18 of one million or more may impose a monetary penalty of up to two
19 hundred fifty dollars for a first offense and up to five hundred dollars
20 for subsequent offenses within a six month period for tractor-trailer
21 combinations, tractors, truck trailers and semi-trailers parked over-
22 night on streets in residential neighborhoods;
23 § 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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