Bill Text: NY A06025 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Increases the total dollar amount of outstanding parking tickets required to trigger vehicle removal and impoundment in New York city to $550 and deems the owner a scofflaw.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to transportation [A06025 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-A06025-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6025 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY March 30, 2023 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. CHANDLER-WATERMAN -- read once and referred to the Committee on Transportation AN ACT to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to increasing total dollar amount of outstanding parking violations and deeming the owner a scofflaw The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 19-212 of the administrative code of the city of 2 New York, as amended by local law number 65 of the city of New York for 3 the year 2005, is amended to read as follows: 4 § 19-212 Limitation on removal of motor vehicles for purposes of 5 satisfying parking violation judgments. a. Notwithstanding any other 6 provision of law, a motor vehicle shall not be removed from any street 7 or other public area solely for the purpose of satisfying an outstanding 8 judgment or judgments for parking violations against the owner unless 9 such owner is a scofflaw. 10 b. For purposes of this section, a scofflaw is defined as an owner of 11 a motor vehicle with more than three outstanding judgments for parking 12 violations or the total amount of such judgment or judgments, including 13 interest, is greater than [three] five hundred fifty dollars. 14 c. The provisions of this section shall not be construed to prohibit 15 the removal of a motor vehicle which is illegally parked, stopped or 16 standing. 17 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD08118-01-3