STATE OF NEW YORK
________________________________________________________________________
1643
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 15, 2019
___________
Introduced by Sen. BROOKS -- 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 dumping snow onto handicapped parking places
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 1203-e of the vehicle and traffic law, as amended
2 by chapter 65 of the laws of 1996, is amended to read as follows:
3 § 1203-e. Dumping snow onto parking places for handicapped prohibited.
4 Any person who knowingly dumps or shovels snow onto a parking place for
5 handicapped persons rendering such place unusable for parking purposes
6 shall be subject to a fine of [twenty-five] one hundred twenty-five
7 dollars for the first offense and a fine not to exceed [one hundred] two
8 hundred fifty dollars for every offense thereafter. However, a local or
9 municipal government may, by local law or ordinance, establish fines
10 higher than those established in this section, but in no instance shall
11 the fines exceed two hundred fifty dollars for the first offense or [two
12 hundred] four hundred fifty dollars for the second or subsequent
13 offense.
14 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD00686-01-9
