STATE OF NEW YORK
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6246
IN SENATE(Prefiled)
January 6, 2016
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Introduced by Sen. GOLDEN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Cities
AN ACT to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in
relation to the removal of motor vehicles for the purpose of satisfy-
ing parking violations judgments
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 19-212 of the administrative code of the city of
2 New York, as amended by local law number 65 of the city of New York for
3 the year 2005, is amended to read as follows:
4 § 19-212 Limitation on removal of motor vehicles for purposes of
5 satisfying parking violation judgments. (a) Notwithstanding any other
6 provision of law, a commercial motor vehicle or a motor vehicle for the
7 transportation of passengers, as such terms are defined in section
8 11-801 of this chapter shall not be removed from any street or other
9 public area solely for the purpose of satisfying an outstanding judgment
10 or judgments for parking violations against the owner unless the total
11 amount of such judgment or judgments, including interest, is greater
12 than [three] one hundred [fifty] dollars.
13 (b) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a motor vehicle that
14 is not subject to the provisions of subdivision (a) of this section
15 shall not be removed from any street or other public area solely for the
16 purpose of satisfying an outstanding judgment or judgments for parking
17 violations against the owner unless the total amount of such judgment or
18 judgments, including interest, is greater than three hundred fifty
19 dollars.
20 (c) The provisions of this section shall not be construed to prohibit
21 the removal of a motor vehicle which is illegally parked, stopped or
22 standing.
23 § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
24 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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