A 4599: Relates to increasing fines for parking violations from fifty to one hundred dollars.
The bill aims to increase fines for certain parking violations in the state of New York. It establishes a schedule of monetary fines and penalties for parking violations, with the following limits: - For parking violations in cities with a population of one million or more, monetary penalties shall not exceed $100. - For handicapped parking violations, monetary penalties shall not exceed $125. - For abandoned vehicle violations in cities with a population of less than one million, monetary penalties shall be at least $250 and not exceed $1,000. - For tractor-trailer combinations, tractors, truck trailers, and semi-trailers parked overnight in residential neighborhoods, cities with a population of one million or more may impose a monetary penalty of up to $250 for the first offense and up to $500 for subsequent offenses within a six-month period. The bill also states that monetary penalt…
| Jan. 07, 2026 | referred to transportation |
| Feb. 04, 2025 | referred to transportation |
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4599 2025-2026 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY February 4, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. CUNNINGHAM -- read once and referred to the Committee on Transportation AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to increasing the fines for parking violations The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 237 of the vehicle and traffic 2 law, as amended by chapter 458 of the laws of 2010, is amended to read 3 as follows: 4 2. To provide for penalties other than imprisonment for (a) parking 5 violations in accordance with a schedule of monetary fines and penal- 6 ties, provided however, that monetary penalties shall not exceed [fifty] 7 one hundred dollars for each parking violation other than (i) in a city 8 with a population of one million or more, violations committed in spaces 9 where stopping or standing is prohibited for which monetary penalties 10 shall not exceed one hundred dollars and, (ii) handicapped parking 11 violations for which monetary penalties shall not exceed one hundred 12 fifty dollars; and (b) abandoned vehicle violations, except in a city 13 with a population of one million or more, provided however, that mone- 14 tary penalties shall not be less than two hundred fifty dollars nor more 15 than one thousand dollars for each abandoned vehicle violation; and (c) 16 a city with a population of one million or more may impose a monetary 17 penalty of up to two hundred fifty dollars for a first offense and up to 18 five hundred dollars for subsequent offenses within a six month period 19 for tractor-trailer combinations, tractors, truck trailers and semi- 20 trailers parked overnight on streets in residential neighborhoods; 21 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD06601-01-5