File #: Int 1048-2016    Version: * Name: Prohibiting immediate towing of certain vehicles.
Type: Introduction Status: Filed (End of Session)
Committee: Committee on Transportation
On agenda: 1/19/2016
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to prohibiting immediate towing of certain vehicles
Sponsors: David G. Greenfield
Council Member Sponsors: 1
Summary: This bill would prohibit city agencies from towing any vehicle unless it has first been immobilized with a wheel lock for at least 72 hours. This law would not apply to vehicles parked illegally at bus stops or fire hydrants, in crosswalks or tow away zones, or that are blocking legal driveways. Nor would it apply when the immediate towing of a vehicle is required as a matter of public safety.
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 1048, 2. January 19, 2016 - Stated Meeting Agenda with Links to Files
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Int. No. 1048

 

By Council Member Greenfield

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to prohibiting immediate towing of certain vehicles

 

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 19-216 to read as follows:

§19-216 Wheel lock devices required. Neither the department nor any other city agency shall tow or cause to be towed a motor vehicle unless such motor vehicle has been immobilized with a wheel lock or similar type device for at least seventy-two hours prior to such towing.  This section shall not apply to vehicles that are parked or standing illegally at bus stops, fire hydrants, crosswalks, or in tow away zones, that are blocking, in whole or in part, legal driveways, or when the immediate towing of such vehicle is required as a matter of public safety.

§2. This local law shall take effect immediately upon enactment.

 

 

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Int 739/2011

LS 6265/2015