Bill Text: NY A09282 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Allows a notice of any parking violation to be sent by first class mail to any person alleged to be liable as an owner of the motor vehicle within fourteen business days if the owner is a New York state resident or forty-five business days for a non-resident.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-3)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-02-11 - referred to transportation [A09282 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A09282-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9282
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 11, 2016
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        Introduced  by  M. of A. FAHY -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Transportation
        AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to the  service
          of notice of parking violations
          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 1605 to read as follows:
     3    §  1605.  Service  of notice of parking violation. Notwithstanding any
     4  other provision of law, a notice of any parking violation may be sent by
     5  first class mail to any person alleged to be liable as an owner  of  the
     6  motor  vehicle within fourteen business days if such owner is a resident
     7  of this state and within forty-five business days if  such  owner  is  a
     8  non-resident.  Personal delivery on the owner of the motor vehicle shall
     9  not be required.
    10    § 2. Subdivision 2 of section 238 of the vehicle and traffic  law,  as
    11  amended  by  chapter  224  of  the  laws  of 1995, is amended to read as
    12  follows:
    13    2. A notice of violation shall be served personally upon the  operator
    14  of  a motor vehicle who is present at the time of service, and his name,
    15  together with the plate designation and the plate type as shown  by  the
    16  registration plates of said vehicle and the expiration date; the make or
    17  model,  and  body  type  of  said  vehicle; a description of the charged
    18  violation, including but not limited to a reference  to  the  applicable
    19  traffic  rule  or  provision of this chapter; information as to the days
    20  and hours the applicable rule or provision of this chapter is in effect,
    21  unless always in effect pursuant to  rule  or  this  chapter  and  where
    22  appropriate the word ALL when the days and/or hours in effect are every-
    23  day  and/or  twenty-four  hours  a  day;  the  meter  number for a meter
    24  violation, where appropriate; and the date, time and particular place of
    25  occurrence of the charged violation, shall be inserted therein.  A  mere
    26  listing of a meter number in cases of charged meter violations shall not
    27  be  deemed  to constitute a sufficient description of a particular place
    28  of occurrence for purposes of this subdivision. The notice of  violation
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13892-01-6