A 1874: Relates to monetary penalties that a parking violations bureau may impose for illegally idling the engine of a motor vehicle.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1874 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY January 14, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. ROSENTHAL -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. COOK -- read once and referred to the Committee on Transportation AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law and the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to monetary penalties that the parking violations bureau may impose for illegally idling the engine of a motor vehicle The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 2 of section 237 of the vehi- 2 cle and traffic law, as amended by chapter 458 of the laws of 2010, is 3 amended to read as follows: 4 (a) parking violations in accordance with a schedule of monetary fines 5 and penalties, provided however, that monetary penalties shall not 6 exceed fifty dollars for each parking violation other than (i) in a city 7 with a population of one million or more, violations committed in spaces 8 where stopping or standing is prohibited for which monetary penalties 9 shall not exceed one hundred dollars and violations of a restriction on 10 idling the engine of a motor vehicle while parking, standing, or stop- 11 ping for which monetary penalties shall not exceed one hundred fifty 12 dollars, and (ii) handicapped parking violations for which monetary 13 penalties shall not exceed one hundred fifty dollars; and 14 § 2. Subdivision b of section 19-203 of the administrative code of the 15 city of New York, as amended by section 2 of part B of chapter 93 of the 16 laws of 2002, is amended to read as follows: 17 b. To provide for penalties other than imprisonment for parking 18 violations, provided however, that monetary penalties shall not exceed 19 (1) fifty dollars for each parking violation, [provided that monetary 20 penalties shall not exceed] (2) one hundred dollars for each parking 21 violation, other than a restriction on idling the engine of a motor 22 vehicle, committed in a space where stopping or standing is prohibited, 23 (3) one hundred fifty dollars for each violation of a restriction on EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD04936-01-5 
 A. 1874 2 1 idling the engine of a motor vehicle while parking, standing, or stop- 2 ping, and [provided, further, that monetary penalties shall not exceed] 3 (4) one hundred fifty dollars for each handicapped parking violation; 4 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.