File #: Int 0255-2002    Version: * Name: Requiring PD equipment and employees to tow vehicles which violate vehicle and traffic rules and regulations.
Type: Introduction Status: Filed
Committee: Committee on Public Safety
On agenda: 8/15/2002
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring police department equipment and employees to tow vehicles which violate vehicle and traffic rules and regulations.
Sponsors: Hiram Monserrate, Leroy G. Comrie, Jr., James Sanders, Jr.
Council Member Sponsors: 3

Int. No. 255

 

By Council Members Monserrate, Comrie and Sanders

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring police department equipment and employees to tow vehicles which violate vehicle and traffic rules and regulations.

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

                     Section 1.  10-162. Towing of vehicles by police department personnel.

Except as provided in sections 19-169, 24-221 and subchapters thirty-one and thirty-two of chapter two of title twenty of this code, and any regulations promulgated thereunder, the police department shall use police department tow equipment, operated by employees of the police department, to tow vehicles that are in violation of any state or city vehicle and traffic rule or regulation.

                     §2.                     This local law shall take effect 60 days after its enactment into law.