File #: Int 1018-2009    Version: * Name: Removal of motor vehicles to satisfy parking violations.
Type: Introduction Status: Filed
Committee: Committee on Transportation
On agenda: 6/10/2009
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, relating to the removal of motor vehicles to satisfy parking violations.
Sponsors: Simcha Felder, Letitia James, Darlene Mealy, Michael C. Nelson, Annabel Palma, Alan J. Gerson
Council Member Sponsors: 6

Int. No. 1018

 

By Council Members Felder, James, Mealy, Nelson, Palma and Gerson

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, relating to the removal of motor vehicles to satisfy parking violations.

 

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 [three hundred fifty] five hundred dollars, or such judgments exceed five parking violations.  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 thirty days after it is enacted into law.

 

 

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LS # 7198

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