Provides for increased fines for overnight parking of tractor-trailer combinations, tractors, truck trailers and semi-trailers on residential streets in the city of New York.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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519
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 4, 2023
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Introduced by Sens. COMRIE, LIU, STAVISKY -- read twice and ordered
printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Cities 1
AN ACT to amend the administrative code of the city of New York and the
vehicle and traffic law, in relation to increasing the fine for trac-
tor-trailer combinations that park on residential streets overnight
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 c of section 19-170 of the
2 administrative code of the city of New York, as amended by local law
3 number 74 of the city of New York for the year 2019, is amended to read
4 as follows:
5 2. A first violation of this section, when the commercial vehicle is a
6 tractor-trailer combination, tractor, truck trailer or semi-trailer,
7 shall be punishable by a monetary fine of [$250] $400. Any such subse-
8 quent violation of this section by the same owner, as defined in para-
9 graph a of subdivision 1 of section 239 of the vehicle and traffic law,
10 within a six month period shall be punishable by a monetary fine of
11 [$500] $800.
12 § 2. Subdivision 2 of section 237 of the vehicle and traffic law, as
13 amended by chapter 458 of the laws of 2010, is amended to read as
14 follows:
15 2. To provide for penalties other than imprisonment for (a) parking
16 violations in accordance with a schedule of monetary fines and penal-
17 ties, provided however, that monetary penalties shall not exceed fifty
18 dollars for each parking violation other than (i) in a city with a popu-
19 lation of one million or more, violations committed in spaces where
20 stopping or standing is prohibited for which monetary penalties shall
21 not exceed one hundred dollars and, (ii) handicapped parking violations
22 for which monetary penalties shall not exceed one hundred fifty dollars;
23 and (b) abandoned vehicle violations, except in a city with a population
24 of one million or more, provided however, that monetary penalties shall
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 not be less than two hundred fifty dollars nor more than one thousand
2 dollars for each abandoned vehicle violation; and (c) a city with a
3 population of one million or more may impose a monetary penalty of up to
4 [two hundred fifty] four hundred dollars for a first offense and up to
5 [five] eight hundred dollars for subsequent offenses within a six month
6 period for tractor-trailer combinations, tractors, truck trailers and
7 semi-trailers parked overnight on streets in residential neighborhoods;
8 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
