STATE OF NEW YORK
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5243
2013-2014 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
May 15, 2013
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Introduced by Sen. FELDER -- 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 establishing
a 5 minute grace period for certain parking violations
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The vehicle and traffic law is amended by adding a new
2 section 1205 to read as follows:
3 § 1205. Grace period for certain parking violations. When parking is
4 prohibited by this article or by local law, ordinance, order, rule or
5 regulation upon the expiration of a specified period of time or at a
6 specified time, no penalty shall be imposed, nor shall any notice of
7 violation be issued to an owner or operator of a vehicle unless and
8 until five minutes have elapsed from the time posted on the appropriate
9 traffic sign, signal, marking or parking meter that demarcates the
10 prohibited period of parking. The elapsed time shall be measured from
11 the time posted on such traffic sign, signal, marking or parking meter
12 that demarcates the prohibited period of parking to the time published
13 on the notice of violation, with the period up to and including five
14 minutes past the posted prohibited period not constituting a violation
15 of the prohibitions posted on the traffic sign, signal, marking or park-
16 ing meter.
17 § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
18 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD10409-01-3
