File #: Int 0662-2024    Version: * Name: Increasing certain penalties for excessive noise from motor vehicles
Type: Introduction Status: Committee
Committee: Committee on Public Safety
On agenda: 3/19/2024
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to increasing certain penalties for excessive noise from motor vehicles
Sponsors: Erik D. Bottcher, Sandra Ung, Linda Lee, Justin L. Brannan, Gale A. Brewer, Inna Vernikov, Kalman Yeger , Susan Zhuang, James F. Gennaro, Julie Won, Farah N. Louis, Lincoln Restler, (by request of the Manhattan Borough President)
Council Member Sponsors: 12
Summary: The proposed bill would increase the penalties for certain motor vehicle related noise violations, including excessive noise from motor vehicles 10,000 pounds or less, excessive noise from motor vehicles 10,000 pounds or more, unauthorized use of motor vehicle claxons, and unauthorized use of motor vehicle air horns or gongs.
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 662, 2. Int. No. 662, 3. March 19, 2024 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 4. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 3-19-24, 5. Minutes of the Stated Meeting - March 19, 2024

Int. No. 662

 

By Council Members Bottcher, Ung, Lee, Brannan, Brewer, Vernikov, Yeger, Zhuang, Gennaro, Won, Louis and Restler (by request of the Manhattan Borough President)

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to increasing certain penalties for excessive noise from motor vehicles

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Table I of paragraph 5 of subdivision b of section 24-257 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as amended by local law 72 for the year 2016, is amended to read as follows:

 

Violations related to section and subdivision

 

First Violation

Second Violation*

Third and Subsequent Violations*

 

Maximum

Minimum

Maximum

Minimum

Maximum

Minimum

24-216 (d)

2,625

 650

5,250

1,300

7,875

1,950

24-218(a)

150

75

250

150

500

350

24-218(a-1)

1,000

 350

2,000

 700

3,000

1,050

24-218.1

 50

 50

 50

 50

 50

 50

24-220

1,400

 440

2,800

 880

4,200

1,320

24-222

3,500

 875

7,000

1,750

10,500

2,625

24-223

3,500

 875

7,000

1,750

10,500

2,625

24-224

3,500

 875

7,000

1,750

10,500

2,625

24-225

1,400

 440

2,800

 880

4,200

1,320

24-226

1,400

 440

2,800

 880

4,200

1,320

24-227

 875

 0

1,750

 440

2,625

 660

24-228

1,400

 440

2,800

 880

4,200

1,320

24-229

1,400

 440

2,800

 880

4,200

1,320

24-230

1,400

 440

2,800

 880

4,200

1,320

24-231(a)

8,000

 0

16,000

4,000

24,000

6,000

24-231(b)

1,750

 440

3,500

 880

5,250

1,320

24-231(c)

 875

 350

1,750

 700

2,625

1,050

24-232

1,400

 440

2,800

 880

4,200

1,320

24-233(a)

 175

 50

 350

 100

 525

 150

24-233(b)(1)

 175

 50

 350

 100

 525

 150

24-233(b)(2)

 350

 100

 700

 200

1,050

 300

24-234

 175

 50

 350

 100

 525

 150

24-235

 175

 50

 350

 100

 525

 150

24-236(a)

[525] 1,050

[150] 300

[1,050] 2,100

[300] 600

[1,575] 3,150

[450] 900

24-236(b)[(c)](d)

1,440

 440

2,800

 880

4,200

1,320

24-236(c)

2,160

660

4,200

1,320

6,300

1,980

24-237(a)

[1,000] 2,000

[150] 300

[2,000] 4,000

[300] 600

[3,000] 6,000

[450] 900

24-237(b)

[875] 1,325

[220] 330

[1,750] 2,625

[440] 660

[2,625] 3,950

[660] 990

24-237(c)

 875

 220

1,750

 440

2,625

 660

24-237(d)

1,000

 350

2,000

 700

3,000

1,050

24-238

 875

 220

1,750

 440

2,625

 660

24-239(b)

 350

 100

 700

 200

1,050

 300

24-241

1,400

 440

2,800

 880

4,200

1,320

24-242

 875

 220

1,750

 440

2,625

 660

24-244

1,750

 440

3,500

 880

5,250

1,320

24-245

2,625

 660

5,250

1,320

7,875

1,980

All remaining sections and subdivisions

 875

 220

1,750

 440

2,625

 660

 

                     § 2. This local law takes effect immediately.

 

 

 

 

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