Bill Text: NY A06025 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 6025

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