File #: Int 1168-2025    Version: * Name: Dismissal of certain parking tickets issued to doulas.
Type: Introduction Status: Committee
Committee: Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
On agenda: 1/23/2025
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to dismissal of certain parking tickets issued to doulas
Sponsors: Amanda Farías, Farah N. Louis, Tiffany Cabán, Lincoln Restler
Council Member Sponsors: 4
Summary: This bill would require the dismissal of a charge for parking where parking is prohibited by a posted sign in cases where it is proven by a preponderance of the evidence that the person charged was a doula providing doula services at the time, and at or around the location, where the violation occurred. This would not apply to charges for parking where parking is prohibited by rule or where stopping or standing are prohibited by a posted sign or rule.
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 1168, 2. Int. No. 1168, 3. January 23, 2025 - Stated Meeting Agenda

Int. No. 1168

 

By Council Members Farías, Louis, Cabán and Restler

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to dismissal of certain parking tickets issued to doulas

 

 Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Chapter 2 of title 19 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 19-214 to read as follows:

§ 19-214 Dismissal of certain parking tickets issued to doulas. a. For purposes of this section, the following terms have the following meanings:

Doula. The term “doula” has the same meaning as set forth in section 356-p of the social services law.

Doula services. The term “doula services” means the provision, by a doula, of non-medical support to pregnant persons and their families before, during, and after childbirth to assist with the physical, emotional, and practical issues that accompany pregnancy and childbirth.

b. A charge for parking where parking is prohibited by a posted sign shall be dismissed if the owner or operator produces proof by a preponderance of the evidence that such owner or operator was a doula and was providing doula services at the time, and at or around the location, where such violation occurred. A certified copy of a person’s certification from a doula educational organization shall constitute proof by a preponderance of the evidence that such person is or was a doula. This subdivision does not apply to a charge for parking where parking is prohibited by rule or where stopping or standing is prohibited by a posted sign or rule.

§ 2. This local law takes effect 120 days after it becomes law.

 

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