Assembly Bill A915

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Provides administrative remedy for persons whose vehicle is wrongfully towed

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2021-A915 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §241-a, add §241-c, V & T L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A4211
2011-2012: A4388
2013-2014: A3307
2015-2016: A2794
2017-2018: A3631
2019-2020: A3507
2023-2024: A714

2021-A915 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides recourse for a person whose vehicle was wrongfully towed in a city with a population of one million or more against the parking violations bureau in such city or the responsible agent of such bureau by granting such person the right to appear before a panel of administrative law judges which shall be empowered to order the correction of records, the refund of any fee paid to release the wrongfully towed vehicle and the reimbursement of out-of-pocket expenses, including lost wages; defines the term "wrongful tow."

2021-A915 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    915
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 6, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M. of A. CARROLL, DINOWITZ, WEPRIN -- Multi-Sponsored by
   -- M. of A.  ABBATE, AUBRY, COLTON, GLICK -- read once and referred to
   the Committee on Transportation
 
 AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law,  in  relation  to  wrongful
   towing

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 1  of  section  241-a  of  the
 vehicle and traffic law, as added by chapter 338 of the laws of 1987, is
 amended to read as follows:
   (a)  Every city with a population of more than one million inhabitants
 that has established a parking violations bureau shall establish, within
 such bureau, a properly staffed complaint unit of public service  repre-
 sentatives  to  respond  to complaints from any person who, after having
 satisfied, by payment, adjudication, or administrative action, any  fine
 or penalty for a parking violation or after having proven that a fine or
 penalty  was  wrongfully  imposed  on this person, receives a demand for
 payment of the  fine  or  penalty  previously  satisfied  or  wrongfully
 imposed,  [or]  is denied any registration or renewal application by the
 department of motor vehicles upon  a  certification  from  such  parking
 violations  bureau  based  upon  lack  of payment of any fine or penalty
 previously satisfied or wrongfully imposed OR  WHOSE  VEHICLE  HAS  BEEN
 WRONGFULLY  TOWED  AS SUCH TERM IS DEFINED BY SECTION TWO HUNDRED FORTY-
 ONE-C OF THIS ARTICLE.    The  complaint  unit  established  under  this
 section  shall  accept complaints either in person or by certified mail,
 return receipt requested. Each written demand for  payment,  other  than
 the  first  demand  following issuance of the notice of violation, shall
 advise the addressee of the existence of  the  complaint  unit  and  the
 procedure for submitting a complaint. Upon receipt of a complaint, if in
 person, or within ten work days after receipt of a complaint if by mail,
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
              

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