Bill Text: NY A02249 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to monetary penalties that a parking violations bureau may impose for illegally idling the engine of a motor vehicle.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to transportation [A02249 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A02249-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2249

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 14, 2021
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        Introduced by M. of A. L. ROSENTHAL, GOTTFRIED, QUART -- Multi-Sponsored
          by  -- M. of A. COOK, PERRY -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Transportation

        AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law and the administrative  code
          of  the  city  of New York, in relation to monetary penalties that the
          parking violations bureau may impose for illegally idling  the  engine
          of a motor vehicle

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 2 of section 237 of the  vehi-
     2  cle  and  traffic law, as amended by chapter 458 of the laws of 2010, is
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    (a) parking violations in accordance with a schedule of monetary fines
     5  and penalties, provided  however,  that  monetary  penalties  shall  not
     6  exceed fifty dollars for each parking violation other than (i) in a city
     7  with a population of one million or more, violations committed in spaces
     8  where  stopping  or  standing is prohibited for which monetary penalties
     9  shall not exceed one hundred dollars and violations of a restriction  on
    10  idling  the  engine of a motor vehicle while parking, standing, or stop-
    11  ping for which monetary penalties shall not  exceed  one  hundred  fifty
    12  dollars,  and  (ii)  handicapped  parking  violations for which monetary
    13  penalties shall not exceed one hundred fifty dollars; and
    14    § 2. Subdivision b of section 19-203 of the administrative code of the
    15  city of New York, as amended by section 2 of part B of chapter 93 of the
    16  laws of 2002, is amended to read as follows:
    17    b. To provide  for  penalties  other  than  imprisonment  for  parking
    18  violations,  provided  however, that monetary penalties shall not exceed
    19  (1) fifty dollars for each parking violation,  [provided  that  monetary
    20  penalties  shall  not  exceed]  (2) one hundred dollars for each parking
    21  violation, other than a restriction on idling  the  engine  of  a  motor
    22  vehicle,  committed in a space where stopping or standing is prohibited,

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00787-01-1
        A. 2249                             2

     1  (3) one hundred fifty dollars for each violation  of  a  restriction  on
     2  idling  the  engine of a motor vehicle while parking, standing, or stop-
     3  ping, and [provided, further, that monetary penalties shall not  exceed]
     4  (4) one hundred fifty dollars for each handicapped parking violation;
     5    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.