Bill Text: NY A07070 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to enacting the "Traffic Ticket Relief Act"; authorizes hearing officers to lower parking and speeding fees based on a case by case basis, to permit the payment of fines and fees in installments.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to transportation [A07070 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A07070-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7070
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                      April 4, 2019
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        Introduced  by M. of A. BURKE -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Transportation
        AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to enacting the
          "traffic ticket relief act"
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Short  title. This act shall be known and may be cited as
     2  the "traffic ticket relief act".
     3    § 2. Section 241 of the vehicle and traffic law is amended by adding a
     4  new subdivision 4 to read as follows:
     5    4. For any fine imposed on a person by a hearing examiner pursuant  to
     6  this section, the hearing examiner may reduce the amount of such fine as
     7  a  result  of such person's lack of ability to pay. The hearing examiner
     8  may request any documentation he or she believes necessary to make  such
     9  a  determination.  The  hearing  examiner  may also authorize the person
    10  fined to pay such fine in installments to be determined by  the  hearing
    11  examiner.
    12    § 3. Section 227 of the vehicle and traffic law is amended by adding a
    13  new subdivision 7 to read as follows:
    14    7.  For  any fine imposed on a person by a hearing officer pursuant to
    15  this section, the hearing officer may reduce the amount of such fine  as
    16  a  result  of  such person's lack of ability to pay. The hearing officer
    17  may request any documentation he or she believes necessary to make  such
    18  a determination. The hearing officer may also authorize the person fined
    19  to  pay  such fine in installments to be determined by the hearing offi-
    20  cer.
    21    § 4. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
    22  have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10545-02-9