File #: Int 0476-2011    Version: * Name: Providing operators of a motor vehicle an opportunity to pay the fine immediately.
Type: Introduction Status: Filed
Committee: Committee on Transportation
On agenda: 2/16/2011
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to providing operators of a motor vehicle an opportunity to pay the fine immediately.
Sponsors: Charles Barron, Letitia James, Melissa Mark-Viverito, Darlene Mealy, Annabel Palma, Jumaane D. Williams, Albert Vann, Mathieu Eugene
Council Member Sponsors: 8
Int. No. 476
 
By Council Members Barron, James, Mark-Viverito, Mealy, Palma, Williams, Vann and Eugene
 
 
A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to providing operators of a motor vehicle an opportunity to pay the fine immediately.  
 
 
Be it enacted by the Council as follows:
 
      Section 1.  Chapter one of title 14 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 14-118.3 to read as follows:
§ 14-118.3 Handheld devices.  Handheld devices used by the department to enforce laws, rules, and regulations relating to parking violations, put into service after the effective date of the local law that added this section, shall be able to scan credit cards.  
§2.  Section 19-204 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new subdivision d to read as follows:
d. When a notice of violation is served personally upon the operator of a motor vehicle, who is present at the time of service, the operator shall have the option to pay the fine immediately by allowing a traffic enforcement agent to use a handheld device to scan their credit card.
      §3. This local law shall take effect sixty days after its enactment into law.
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