Bill Text: NY A09250 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 9250

Introduced

Bill Title: Provides that persons charged with a parking violation shall be able to make an electronic court appearance.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 17-2)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-02-22 - referred to transportation [A09250 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A09250-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          9250

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 22, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. DINOWITZ -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Transportation

        AN  ACT  to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to electronic
          appearances for parking violations

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  Section  237 of the vehicle and traffic law is amended by
     2  adding a new subdivision 3-a to read as follows:
     3    3-a. To adopt rules and regulations prescribing electronic appearances
     4  at hearings adjudicating parking violations;
     5    § 2. Section 240 of the vehicle and traffic law is amended by adding a
     6  new subdivision 3 to read as follows:
     7    3. Parking violations. A person charged with a parking  violation  may
     8  enter  a  plea of not guilty, personally or through an authorized repre-
     9  sentative, to obtain a hearing either in person  or  through  electronic
    10  appearance. Such plea may be entered in person at any parking violations
    11  bureau  office,  via  first-class mail or electronically on the bureau's
    12  website. The parking violations bureau shall advise the party making the
    13  plea through first class mail or electronically through email  that  the
    14  hearing  shall  be conducted in the manner selected by the respondent or
    15  their  authorized  representative.  In  all   instances,   the   parking
    16  violations  bureau  shall permit the electronic submission of documenta-
    17  tion and evidence for all  hearings,  adjournment  requests,  and  other
    18  requests  for  information  up until the date and time of such scheduled
    19  hearing, and such submissions shall constitute a permanent record to  be
    20  maintained by the parking violations bureau for a minimum of eight years
    21  and  three months. Electronic signature and electronic notaries shall be
    22  treated in the same manner as printed material and physical filings by a
    23  respondent or their authorized representative or legal counsel shall not
    24  be required. A video recording  shall be made contemporaneously with any
    25  electronic appearance or hearing  and may be introduced as  evidence  in
    26  any future proceedings relating to such violation.
    27    §  3.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
    28  have become a law.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13827-02-4