File #: Int 0897-2008    Version: * Name: Requiring the Department of Finance to dismiss parking violations issued for the failure to display a muni-meter receipt if the driver provides a valid receipt from the time the ticket was issued.
Type: Introduction Status: Filed
Committee: Committee on Finance
On agenda: 12/18/2008
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring the Department of Finance to dismiss parking violations issued for the failure to display a muni-meter receipt if the driver provides a valid receipt from the time the ticket was issued.
Sponsors: Daniel R. Garodnick, Gale A. Brewer, Simcha Felder, Vincent J. Gentile, Alan J. Gerson, Letitia James, G. Oliver Koppell, Michael C. Nelson, James Vacca, David I. Weprin, Jessica S. Lappin
Council Member Sponsors: 11
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12/31/2009*Daniel R. Garodnick City Council Filed (End of Session)  Action details Meeting details Not available
12/18/2008*Daniel R. Garodnick City Council Referred to Comm by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
12/18/2008*Daniel R. Garodnick City Council Introduced by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available

Int. No. 897

 

By Council Members Garodnick, Brewer, Felder, Gentile, Gerson, James, Koppell, Nelson, Vacca, Weprin and Lappin

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring the Department of Finance to dismiss parking violations issued for the failure to display a muni-meter receipt if the driver provides a valid receipt from the time the ticket was issued.

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Chapter 1 of title 19 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 19-167.2 to read as follows:

§19-167.2  a.  Failure to display a muni-meter receipt.  For purposes of this section, the term “muni-meter” shall mean an electronic parking meter that dispenses timed receipts that must be displayed in a conspicuous place on a vehicle’s dashboard.

                     b. Notwithstanding any rule or regulation to the contrary, but subject to the provisions of the vehicle and traffic law, for notices of violations issued to an owner of a vehicle for the failure to display a muni-meter receipt reflecting the period of parking time purchased for such vehicle, the  hearing  officer or hearing examiner shall  dismiss  any such  notice  of  violation issued to the owner of such vehicle upon  receipt  from  the  owner,  in  person  or  by  mail,  of  a valid receipt from the time the ticket was issued, or other suitable evidence as determined by the hearing officer or hearing examiner.

                     §2. This local law shall take effect immediately.

 

 

TE 11-1-08

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