Actions

Text

STATE OF NEW YORK
________________________________________________________________________

6595

2011-2012 Regular Sessions

IN ASSEMBLY

March 22, 2011
___________

Introduced  by M. of A. SCHIMEL -- read once and referred to the Commit-
  tee on Transportation

AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation  to  increasing
  the fines for dumping snow onto handicapped parking places

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. Section 1203-e of the vehicle and traffic law,  as  amended
by chapter 65 of the laws of 1996, is amended to read as follows:
  S 1203-e. Dumping snow onto parking places for handicapped prohibited.
Any  person who knowingly dumps or shovels snow onto a parking place for
handicapped persons rendering such place unusable for  parking  purposes
shall  be  subject  to a fine of [twenty-five] ONE HUNDRED FIFTY dollars
for the first offense and a fine  not  to  exceed  [one]  THREE  hundred
dollars  for  every  offense  thereafter.  However, a local or municipal
government may, by local law or ordinance, establish fines  higher  than
those  established  in  this section, but in no instance shall the fines
exceed TWO HUNDRED fifty dollars for the first  offense  or  [two]  FIVE
hundred dollars for the second or subsequent offense.
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD10373-01-1