File #: Int 0300-2002    Version: * Name: Limitation on removal of motor vehicles for purposes of satisfying parking violation judgments.
Type: Introduction Status: Filed
Committee: Committee on Transportation
On agenda: 11/7/2002
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to the limitation on removal of motor vehicles for purposes of satisfying parking violation judgments.
Sponsors: Erik Martin Dilan, John C. Liu, Leroy G. Comrie, Jr., Simcha Felder, Lewis A. Fidler, Helen D. Foster, James F. Gennaro, Robert Jackson, Hiram Monserrate, Michael C. Nelson, Philip Reed, Helen Sears, Kendall Stewart, Albert Vann, David I. Weprin
Council Member Sponsors: 15
Date Ver.Prime SponsorAction ByActionResultAction DetailsMeeting DetailsMultimedia
12/31/2003*Erik Martin Dilan City Council Filed (End of Session)  Action details Meeting details Not available
11/7/2002*Erik Martin Dilan City Council Referred to Comm by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
11/7/2002*Erik Martin Dilan City Council Introduced by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available

Int. No. 300

 

By Council Members Dilan, Liu, Comrie, Felder, Fidler, Foster, Gennaro, Jackson, Monserrate, Nelson, Reed, Sears, Stewart, Vann and Weprin

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to the limitation on removal of motor vehicles for purposes of satisfying parking violation judgments.

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Section 19-212 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended to read as follows:

                     19-212  Limitation on removal of motor vehicles for purposes of satisfying parking violation judgments.  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a motor vehicle shall not be removed from any street or other public area solely for the purpose of satisfying an outstanding judgment or judgments for parking violations against the owner unless the total amount of such judgment or judgments, including interest, is greater than [two hundred thirty dollars] four hundred dollars.  The provisions of this section shall not be construed to prohibit the removal of a motor vehicle which is illegally parked, stopped or standing.

                     §2.  This local law shall take effect immediately after it is enacted into law.