STATE OF NEW YORK
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                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 11, 2017
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        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.
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