Bill Text: NY A01265 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Increases the fine for illegally parking in a space marked for use by handicapped persons to a range of $75 to $200 for the subsequent offense within two years.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - referred to codes [A01265 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-A01265-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1265 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 11, 2017 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. GANTT -- read once and referred to the Committee on Transportation AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to increasing the amount of the fine imposed for illegally parking The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 1203-c of the vehicle and traffic 2 law, as amended by chapter 613 of the laws of 2003, is amended to read 3 as follows: 4 4. Except as otherwise provided by local law which imposes a larger 5 maximum fine, any person who stops, stands or parks in spaces clearly 6 marked for use by the handicapped in accordance with this section, with- 7 out a special vehicle identification parking permit, a special municipal 8 parking permit or whose motor vehicle is not registered in accordance 9 with section four hundred four-a of this chapter and being used for the 10 transportation of a handicapped person; or with such permit or registra- 11 tion and such person is not the one to whom the permit or registration 12 was issued or is not transporting the person issued the permit or regis- 13 tration; or any person who parks in a handicapped parking access aisle; 14 shall be subject to a fine of not less than fifty dollars nor more than 15 seventy-five dollars for the first offense and seventy-five to [one] two 16 hundred [fifty] dollars for the second offense occurring within a period 17 of two years within the same municipality. The arresting or ticketing 18 officer shall issue a summons to violators of this section. A ticketing 19 officer issuing a summons pursuant to this section may provide for the 20 removal and storage of a motor vehicle illegally parked in a handicapped 21 parking space, or a handicapped parking access aisle. 22 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed- 23 ing the date on which it shall have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD01432-01-7