Bill Text: NY A09702 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Increases the fines for dumping or plowing snow onto handicapped parking spaces.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2022-07-21 - signed chap.422 [A09702 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-A09702-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 9702--B IN ASSEMBLY March 28, 2022 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. GRIFFIN, SAYEGH -- read once and referred to the Committee on Transportation -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee -- reported and referred to the Committee on Codes -- reported and referred to the Committee on Rules -- Rules Committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to the Committee on Rules AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to increasing the fines for dumping snow or plowing onto handicapped parking places The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 1203-e of the vehicle and traffic law, as amended 2 by chapter 65 of the laws of 1996, is amended to read as follows: 3 § 1203-e. Dumping or plowing snow onto parking places for handicapped 4 prohibited. [Any] 1. Except as otherwise provided in subdivision two of 5 this section, any person who knowingly dumps or shovels snow onto a 6 parking place for handicapped persons rendering such place unusable for 7 parking purposes shall be subject to a fine of twenty-five dollars for 8 the first offense and a fine not to exceed one hundred dollars for every 9 offense thereafter. However, a local or municipal government may, by 10 local law or ordinance, establish fines higher than those established in 11 this [section] subdivision, but in no instance shall the fines exceed 12 fifty dollars for the first offense or two hundred dollars for the 13 second or subsequent offense. 14 2. Notwithstanding the provisions of subdivision one of this section, 15 any firm, corporation, partnership or association engaged in the conduct 16 of any business, trade or commerce or in the furnishing of any service 17 in this state who knowingly dumps, shovels or plows snow onto a parking 18 place for handicapped persons rendering such place unusable for parking 19 purposes shall be subject to a fine of one hundred twenty-five dollars 20 for the first offense and a fine not to exceed two hundred fifty dollars 21 for every offense thereafter. However, a local or municipal government 22 may, by local law or ordinance, establish fines higher than those estab- 23 lished in this subdivision, but in no instance shall the fines exceed EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD03506-06-2A. 9702--B 2 1 two hundred fifty dollars for the first offense or four hundred fifty 2 dollars for the second or subsequent offense. 3 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall 4 have become a law, and shall apply to violations committed on and after 5 such date.