Provides that no additional penalty or alternate additional penalty shall accrue on parking violations after the date of payment of in full, during such time as the person makes payment in compliance with the schedule of payments and/or for the failure to pay a previously imposed or accrued additional penalty or alternate additional penalty; however, permits interest to be charged on the amount of any unpaid penalty.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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495
2009-2010 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE(Prefiled)
January 7, 2009
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Introduced by Sen. LANZA -- 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 the calcu-
lation of penalties and additional penalties on parking violations
returnable before a parking violations bureau or tribunal
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 235 of the vehicle and traffic
2 law is amended by adding a new paragraph b-4 to read as follows:
3 b-4. Additional penalty or alternate additional penalty; prohibit. (1)
4 Notwithstanding any other provision of this article, no additional
5 penalty or alternate additional penalty authorized pursuant to para-
6 graphs b, b-1 and b-2 of this subdivision shall be imposed or accrued
7 (i) on or after the date that such person pays in full the fine imposed
8 for a parking, stopping or standing violation, (ii) during such time
9 that a person pays such fine in compliance with a schedule of payments
10 therefor and/or (iii) for the failure to pay a previously imposed or
11 accrued additional penalty or alternate additional penalty imposed
12 pursuant to paragraphs b, b-1 and b-2 of this subdivision.
13 (2) Nothing contained in this subdivision shall be deemed to prohibit
14 the charging of interest as otherwise authorized by law, charter, local
15 law, rule or regulation, on the amount of the additional penalty or
16 alternate additional penalty due but which remains unpaid, until the
17 date of payment of such additional penalty or alternate additional
18 penalty.
19 § 2. This act shall take effect on the forty-fifth day after it shall
20 have become a law and shall apply to violations committed on or after
21 such date; provided, however, that the amendments to section 235 of the
22 vehicle and traffic law made by section one of this act shall not affect
23 the expiration and reversion of such section as provided in subdivision
24 (p) of section 406 of chapter 166 of the laws of 1991, as amended and
25 shall be deemed to expire therewith.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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