Bill Text: NY A04752 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Allows certain defenses to parking violations despite entering of a default judgment.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-06 - referred to transportation [A04752 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A04752-Introduced.html
                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   February 5, 2015
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       Introduced  by  M. of A. COLTON, RIVERA, ABBATE -- Multi-Sponsored by --
         M. of A. COOK -- read once and referred to the Committee on  Transpor-
         tation
       AN  ACT  to  amend  the  vehicle and traffic law, in relation to parking
         infractions
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Paragraph  (b)  of  subdivision 2-a of section 238 of the
    2  vehicle and traffic law, as added by chapter 224 of the laws of 1995, is
    3  amended to read as follows:
    4    (b) If any information which is required to be inserted on a notice of
    5  violation is omitted from the  notice  of  violation,  misdescribed,  or
    6  illegible,  the  violation  shall  be  dismissed upon application of the
    7  person charged with the violation. SUCH APPLICATION FOR DISMISSAL  SHALL
    8  BE  AVAILABLE  TO THE PERSON CHARGED WITH THE VIOLATION DESPITE THE FACT
    9  THAT A DEFAULT JUDGMENT WAS ENTERED  PURSUANT  TO  SECTION  TWO  HUNDRED
   10  FORTY-ONE OF THIS ARTICLE.
   11    S  2.  This  act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
   12  have become a law and shall apply to  any  notice  of  violation  issued
   13  after such date.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD06453-01-5
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