Bill Text: NY S09955 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Establishes discounted parking permits for seniors sixty-two years of age or older who earn fifty percent or less of the area median income.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2024-12-02 - REFERRED TO RULES [S09955 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S09955-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9955

                    IN SENATE

                                    December 2, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by Sen. SCARCELLA-SPANTON -- read twice and ordered printed,
          and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules

        AN ACT to amend the administrative code of the  city  of  New  York,  in
          relation  to  discounted quarterly municipal parking field permits for
          seniors

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

     1    Section  1. The administrative code of the city of New York is amended
     2  by adding a new section 19-162.6 to read as follows:
     3    § 19-162.6 Discounted city-issued quarterly  municipal  parking  field
     4  permits.  1. For the purposes of this section, the following terms shall
     5  have the following meanings:
     6    (a) "Area median income" shall mean the median family income  for  the
     7  area, as defined annually by the United States department of housing and
     8  urban  development (HUD) for the New York, NY HUD Metro FMR Area (FMRA),
     9  adjusted for the size of the household.
    10    (b) "City-issued quarterly municipal parking field permit" shall  mean
    11  a  permit  issued  on a quarterly basis by the department that indicates
    12  permission to park in a municipal parking field operated by the  depart-
    13  ment.
    14    (c)  "Municipal parking field" shall mean an off-street parking field,
    15  lot, garage or other off-street parking structure owned and operated  by
    16  the department for public use.
    17    2.  Parking  rates  for  city-issued quarterly municipal parking field
    18  permits for municipal  parking  fields  shall  be  reduced  for  persons
    19  sixty-two  years  of  age  or older with annual gross incomes of no more
    20  than fifty percent of the area median income. Such reduced  rates  shall
    21  be no greater than fifty percent of the highest parking rate charged for
    22  a city-issued quarterly municipal parking field permit.
    23    3. Each person applying for a discounted city-issued quarterly munici-
    24  pal  parking  field permit or for renewal thereof shall file an applica-
    25  tion in such form and detail as the commissioner may prescribe.
    26    4. Upon the approval of an application submitted pursuant to  subdivi-
    27  sion  three  of  this  section,  the department shall issue a discounted

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  city-issued quarterly municipal parking field permit  to  the  applicant
     2  that  may  only  be used with the vehicle or vehicles identified on such
     3  application.
     4    5.  Discounted  city-issued  quarterly municipal parking field permits
     5  shall not be transferable to another individual, vehicle or vehicles  if
     6  issued to a specific individual, vehicle or vehicles.
     7    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
     8  have become a law.