File #: Int 0840-2012    Version: * Name: Payment availability at tow pounds.
Type: Introduction Status: Filed
Committee: Committee on Transportation
On agenda: 4/18/2012
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the New York city charter, in relation to payment availability at tow pounds.
Sponsors: James Vacca, Gale A. Brewer, Lewis A. Fidler, Letitia James, Karen Koslowitz, Stephen T. Levin, Domenic M. Recchia, Jr., Deborah L. Rose, Ruben Wills, Daniel J. Halloran III, Eric A. Ulrich
Council Member Sponsors: 11
Int. No. 840
 
By Council Members Vacca, Brewer, Fidler, James, Koslowitz, Levin, Recchia, Rose, Wills, Halloran and Ulrich   
 
 
A Local Law to amend the New York city charter, in relation to payment availability at tow pounds.
 
 
Be it enacted by the Council as follows:
 
      Section 1.  Subdivision a of section 2903 of the New York city charter is amended by adding a new paragraph 13-c to read as follows:
      (13-c)  Notwithstanding any other provisions of law, consult with the commissioner of finance or the police commissioner, or any other appropriate agency head,  and ensure that all locations where motor vehicles are being held following the towing of such vehicle accept for payment cash and at least two major credit cards as an alternate means of payment of fees or charges required to be paid in order to retrieve a motor vehicle which has been towed due to a violation of any law, rule, or regulation providing for or regulating parking, stopping, standing or trespassing of a motor vehicle.  For the purposes of this provision, "major credit card" shall mean MasterCard, Visa, American Express or Discover.
      ยง2.  This local law shall take effect one hundred twenty days after its enactment into law.
 
 
LS # 3291
4/12/12
LF