A 205: Requires police departments to electronically transmit to parking violations bureaus a copy of each stolen vehicle report prepared (within 5 days of the completion thereof); provides that for the purposes of an owner asserting a defense to a charge of parking violation (that the motor vehicle had been reported stolen and had not been recovered by such time), it shall be a sufficient defense that a copy of the electronically transmitted police report is on file with the parking violations bureau.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 205 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY (Prefiled) January 8, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. EICHENSTEIN -- read once and referred to the Committee on Transportation AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to requiring police departments to electronically transmit to parking violations bureaus a copy of each report of stolen vehicle prepared The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 239 of the vehicle and traffic 2 law, as added by chapter 180 of the laws of 1980, is amended to read as 3 follows: 4 3. Stolen vehicles. If any owner of a motor vehicle receives a notice 5 of violation for a period during which the illegally parked vehicle was 6 reported to any police department as having been stolen, it shall be a 7 valid defense to any charge of a parking violation that the motor vehi- 8 cle had been reported to the police as stolen prior to the time the 9 violation occurred and had not been recovered by such time. The police 10 department shall electronically transmit to the parking violations 11 bureau, who shall receive and keep on file, a copy of each report of 12 stolen vehicle within five days of the report's completion. For the 13 purposes of asserting the defense provided by this subdivision, it shall 14 be a sufficient defense that [a]: 15 a. A copy of the electronically transmitted police report of the 16 stolen vehicle is on file with the parking violations bureau, or 17 b. A certified copy of the police report of the stolen vehicle [be] 18 has been mailed to the parking violations bureau. 19 § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall 20 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD00626-01-5