Bill Text: NY A05475 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Grants temporary parking permits for handicapped parking spaces to pregnant women; requires certification by a physician; terminates permit at the end of the pregnancy.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-03-15 - enacting clause stricken [A05475 Detail]
Download: New_York-2011-A05475-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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5475
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
February 22, 2011
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Introduced by M. of A. TOWNS -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Transportation
AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to granting
temporary parking permits for handicapped parking spaces to pregnant
women
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
1 Section 1. The vehicle and traffic law is amended by adding a new
2 section 1203-a-1 to read as follows:
3 S 1203-A-1. TEMPORARY PARKING PERMITS FOR PREGNANT WOMEN. NOTWITH-
4 STANDING ANY PROVISION OF THIS CHAPTER TO THE CONTRARY, ANY MUNICIPALITY
5 MAY ISSUE A TEMPORARY SPECIAL VEHICLE IDENTIFICATION PARKING PERMIT TO
6 ANY WOMAN WHO IS PREGNANT, AS CERTIFIED BY A PHYSICIAN. SUCH TEMPORARY
7 SPECIAL VEHICLE IDENTIFICATION PARKING PERMIT SHALL BE RECOGNIZED STATE-
8 WIDE AND SHALL TERMINATE AT THE END OF THE PREGNANCY.
9 S 2. Section 1203-b of the vehicle and traffic law, as amended by
10 chapter 203 of the laws of 1981, is amended to read as follows:
11 S 1203-b. Parking spaces; handicapped. 1. Parking spaces for the hand-
12 icapped as provided for in sections one thousand two hundred three-a and
13 one thousand two hundred three-c of this [chapter] ARTICLE shall also be
14 extended to a motor vehicle registered in accordance with section four
15 hundred four-a, OR A TEMPORARY PARKING PERMIT ISSUED PURSUANT TO SECTION
16 ONE THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED THREE-A-ONE of this chapter. A handicapped
17 permit issued in accordance with the provisions of section one thousand
18 two hundred three-a AND A TEMPORARY PARKING PERMIT ISSUED PURSUANT TO
19 SECTION ONE THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED THREE-A-ONE of this [chapter] ARTICLE
20 shall entitle the driver to park in such parking spaces. Parking spaces
21 for the handicapped shall be those parking spaces accorded to a holder
22 of a handicapped parking permit provided in accordance with section one
23 thousand two hundred three-a or as provided in section four hundred
24 four-a OR SECTION ONE THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED THREE-A-ONE of this chapter,
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD09584-01-1
A. 5475 2
1 AUTHORIZING MUNICIPALITIES TO ISSUE TEMPORARY PARKING PERMITS TO PREG-
2 NANT WOMEN.
3 2. It shall be a violation for any person to stop, stand or park a
4 vehicle in any area designated as a place for handicapped parking unless
5 the vehicle bears a permit issued under section one thousand two hundred
6 three-a, SECTION ONE THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED THREE-A-ONE or a registration
7 issued under section four hundred four-a of this chapter and such vehi-
8 cle is being used for the transportation of a severely disabled [or],
9 handicapped OR PREGNANT person. This subdivision shall not apply to a
10 violation of section twelve hundred three-c of this [chapter] ARTICLE.
11 S 3. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
12 have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
13 repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation of
14 this act on its effective date are authorized and directed to be made
15 and completed on or before such effective date.
