STATE OF NEW YORK
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4516
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
April 8, 2011
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Introduced by Sen. MARTINS -- 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 fifty dollars
7 for the first offense and a fine not to exceed [one] three hundred
8 dollars for every offense thereafter. However, a local or municipal
9 government may, by local law or ordinance, establish fines higher than
10 those established in this section, but in no instance shall the fines
11 exceed two hundred fifty dollars for the first offense or [two] five
12 hundred dollars for the second or subsequent offense.
13 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD10373-01-1
