Bill Text: NY A03418 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Increases the fine for handicap parking violations and allows motorists so cited to provide proof of possession of such permit to reduce such fine.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-01-08 - referred to transportation [A03418 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-A03418-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         3418
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   January 25, 2013
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       Introduced by M. of A. MORELLE, CUSICK, RAIA, JOHNS, CERETTO, MONTESANO,
         MOYA  --  Multi-Sponsored  by  --  M.  of  A. ABBATE, BARCLAY, DUPREY,
         GIGLIO, McDONOUGH, McKEVITT, OAKS, ORTIZ, SCHIMEL, STEVENSON, SWEENEY,
         THIELE -- read once and referred to the Committee on Transportation
       AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to the fine for
         certain handicapped parking violations
         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] ONE HUNDRED FIFTY  dollars  for  the  first  offense  and
   16  [seventy-five]  ONE HUNDRED FIFTY to [one] TWO hundred fifty dollars for
   17  the second offense occurring within a period of  two  years  within  the
   18  same  municipality; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT IF A MOTORIST BEING ISSUED A
   19  SUMMONS PURSUANT TO THIS SECTION PROVIDES PROOF OF POSSESSING A  SPECIAL
   20  VEHICLE  IDENTIFICATION  PARKING  PERMIT  OR A SPECIAL MUNICIPAL PARKING
   21  PERMIT TO THE MUNICIPALITY WHERE THE SUMMONS WAS ISSUED WITHIN TEN DAYS,
   22  THEY SHALL BE SUBJECT TO A FINE OF NO LESS THAN  FIFTY  DOLLARS  AND  NO
   23  MORE THAN SEVENTY-FIVE DOLLARS. The arresting or ticketing officer shall
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD06604-01-3
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    1  issue  a summons to violators of this section. A ticketing officer issu-
    2  ing a summons pursuant to this section may provide for the  removal  and
    3  storage  of  a  motor  vehicle illegally parked in a handicapped parking
    4  space, or a handicapped parking access aisle.
    5    S 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
    6  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.