Bill Text: NY S00518 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides a fine of one thousand dollars for a person responsible for a trailer or semitrailer parked or left unattended in a city with a population of one million or more; makes certain exceptions.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-06-07 - COMMITTED TO RULES [S00518 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S00518-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           518

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                     January 4, 2023
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        Introduced  by  Sens.  COMRIE,  LIU,  STAVISKY -- read twice and ordered
          printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on  Trans-
          portation

        AN  ACT  to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to a fine for
          parked or unattended semitrailers or trailers on  streets  of  a  city
          with a population of one million or more

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

     1    Section 1. Paragraph 2 of subdivision (b) of section 1204 of the vehi-
     2  cle and traffic law, as amended by chapter 193 of the laws of  1974,  is
     3  amended and a new paragraph 3 is added to read as follows:
     4    2.  In any city with a population of one million or more, whenever any
     5  police officer, or any person designated by the commissioner  [of  traf-
     6  fic], finds a semitrailer or trailer without a tractor or towing vehicle
     7  attached,  parked  or  unattended  on  any  city street, such officer or
     8  person designated by the commissioner [of traffic] is hereby  authorized
     9  to  provide  for the removal of such semitrailer or trailer to a garage,
    10  automobile pound or other place of safety.   The owner or  other  person
    11  lawfully entitled to the possession of such semitrailer or trailer shall
    12  be subject to a fine of one thousand dollars.
    13    3.  If  a  semitrailer  or trailer without a tractor or towing vehicle
    14  attached is parked and left unattended while it is connected to a  state
    15  sanctioned  film  or  television  production,  the owner or other person
    16  lawfully entitled to the possession of such semitrailer or trailer shall
    17  not be subject to the one thousand dollar fine as provided in  paragraph
    18  two of this subdivision.
    19    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02737-01-3