File #: Int 2201-2021    Version: Name: Allowing motorcyclists to challenge parking violations electronically with photographic evidence.
Type: Introduction Status: Enacted
Committee: Committee on Transportation
On agenda: 1/6/2021
Enactment date: 1/9/2022 Law number: 2022/016
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to allowing motorcyclists to challenge parking violations electronically with photographic evidence
Sponsors: Carlina Rivera , Farah N. Louis, Darma V. Diaz, Ben Kallos
Council Member Sponsors: 4
Summary: This bill would permit owners and operators of motorcycles to digitally provide photographic evidence that parking was paid for at the time of an alleged parking violation. Such photographic evidence would be submitted to the Department of Finance through their website and serve as an affirmative defense to the alleged violation.
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 2201-A, 2. Summary of Int. No. 2201, 3. Int. No. 2201, 4. January 6, 2021 - Charter Meeting Agenda with Links to Files, 5. Hearing Transcript - Charter Meeting 1-6-21, 6. Minutes of the Charter Meeting - January 6, 2021, 7. Committee Report 10/26/21, 8. Hearing Testimony 10/26/21, 9. Hearing Transcript 10/26/21, 10. Proposed Int. No. 2201-A - 12/2/21, 11. Committee Report 12/8/21, 12. Hearing Transcript 12/8/21, 13. Committee Report - Stated Meeting, 14. December 9, 2021 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 15. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 12-9-21, 16. Minutes of the Stated Meeting - December 9, 2021, 17. Int. No. 2201-A (FINAL), 18. Fiscal Impact Statement, 19. Legislative Documents - Letter to the Mayor, 20. Local Law 16
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1/10/2022ACarlina Rivera City Council Returned Unsigned by Mayor  Action details Meeting details Not available
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12/8/2021*Carlina Rivera Committee on Transportation Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
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10/26/2021*Carlina Rivera Committee on Oversight and Investigations Laid Over by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
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Int. No. 2201-A

 

By Council Members Rivera, Louis, D. Diaz and Kallos

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to allowing motorcyclists to challenge parking violations electronically with photographic evidence

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Subdivision c of section 19-213 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as amended by a local law for the year 2021 amending the administrative code of the city of New York, relating to parking meters, as proposed in introduction number 2422-A, is amended to read as follows:

c. Failure to purchase parking time. Notwithstanding any rule or regulation to the contrary, and subject to the provisions of the vehicle and traffic law, where a notice of violation is issued to an owner or operator of a vehicle for the failure to purchase parking time, it shall be an affirmative defense to such violation that such owner or operator purchased parking time for the time such notice of violation was issued or up to five minutes thereafter from a parking meter at the location such notice of violation was issued. Evidence in support of the affirmative defense shall be the presentation, in person or by mail, of a valid payment receipt for the time such notice of violation was issued or for up to five minutes thereafter or other suitable evidence, as determined by the hearing officer, that such parking time was purchased. When in such instance the vehicle is a motorcycle, evidence may be a digital photograph, submitted through the bureau’s website, of a valid payment receipt for the time such notice of violation was issued or for up to five minutes thereafter.

§ 2. This local law takes effect on the same date as a local law for the year 2021 amending the administrative code of the city of New York, relating to parking meters, as proposed in introduction number 2422-A for the year 2021, takes effect.

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