File #: Int 2489-2021    Version: * Name: Penalty for violations of alternate side parking rules.
Type: Introduction Status: Filed (End of Session)
Committee: Committee on Transportation
On agenda: 12/15/2021
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city New York, in relation to the penalty for violations of alternate side parking rules
Sponsors: Kalman Yeger
Council Member Sponsors: 1
Summary: The proposed legislation would lower the penalty for violating alternate side parking rules to $30 and issue partial refunds for amounts paid under the higher penalty that took effect on February 20, 2020.
Indexes: Agency Rule-making Required
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 2489, 2. Int. No. 2489, 3. December 15, 2021 - Stated Meeting Agenda with Links to Files, 4. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 12-15-21, 5. Minutes of the Stated Meeting - December 15, 2021

Int. No. 2489

 

By Council Member Yeger

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city New York, in relation to the penalty for violations of alternate side parking rules

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Subdivision b of section 19-203 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as amended by chapter 93 of the laws of 2002, is amended to read as follows:

b. To provide for penalties other than imprisonment for parking violations, provided however, that monetary penalties shall not exceed fifty dollars for each parking violation, provided that monetary penalties shall not exceed one hundred dollars for each parking violation committed in a space where stopping or standing is prohibited and provided, further, that monetary penalties shall not exceed one hundred fifty dollars for each handicapped parking violation, and provided further that monetary penalties shall not exceed thirty dollars for parking violations committed in violation of officially posted street cleaning rules;

§ 2.  Chapter 2 of title 19 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 19-216 to read as follows:

§ 19-216 Refund of street cleaning penalties. a. The commissioner of finance shall issue a partial refund of monetary penalties paid in connection with any summons issued on or after February 20, 2020 for parking in violation of officially posted street cleaning rules. The amount to be refunded shall consist of the amount paid in excess of the thirty-dollar maximum penalty for such a violation provided in subdivision b of section 19-203, excluding all associated surcharges and fees.

b. The commissioner of finance may promulgate any rules necessary to administer the provisions of this section.

§ 3. This local law takes effect immediately, and section one of this local law is retroactive to and deemed to have been in effect as of February 20, 2020.

 

 

 

 

 

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May 19, 2020 2:09 PM