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A2903Assembly2017-2018 Session

Pay for Wrong Parking Tickets

Official title

“Relates to erroneously issued parking violation summons”

Sponsor Michael DenDekkerAD-34Affects Transportation
Status
In Assembly Committee
Transportation
Impact
6/10
Moderate
Passage
0%

Bill progress

Step 2 of 7

In committee · Transportation

What's happening

This bill requires courts to pay $100 to individuals who receive and successfully contest erroneously issued parking violation summonses.

Why it matters

  1. Creates a financial incentive for individuals to contest erroneous parking tickets. , which could help ensure that people are not unfairly penalized for administrative or procedural mistakes made by ticketing authorities.

  2. Places financial accountability on local governments or courts for mistakes. , potentially encouraging greater care and accuracy in the issuance of parking summonses and reducing the number of wrongful tickets issued.

  3. Could reduce the burden on individuals who must take time off work or invest effort to contest a ticket. , by compensating them for the inconvenience and possible lost income associated with fighting an erroneous citation.

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Who cares

  • Drivers receiving erroneous parking tickets

    They would receive $100 if a court or hearing officer finds the summons was issued through no fault of their own and dismisses it because they violated no law.

  • Courts handling parking violations

    Courts would be required to issue the $100 payment when a summons is dismissed under the bill’s criteria.

  • Parking violation hearing officers

    Their determinations that a summons was erroneously issued and the driver violated no law could trigger the court’s payment obligation.

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Pay for Wrong Parking Tickets

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Sponsors

Primary sponsor
Michael DenDekker

Assembly Member · Assembly District 34

No co-sponsors yet.

History

  1. Referred to transportation
  2. Referred to transportation

Full text

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STATE OF NEW YORK

2903

2017-2018 Regular Sessions

IN ASSEMBLY

January 23, 2017

Introduced by M. of A. DenDEKKER -- read once and referred to the Committee on Transportation

AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to an erroneously issued parking violation summons

The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

Section 1. Section 1200 of the vehicle and traffic law is amended by adding a new subdivision (e) to read as follows:

(e) Where a court or hearing officer determines that a parking violation summons was erroneously issued due to no fault of the person receiving such summons and is dismissed because the driver did not violate any law, the court shall issue a one hundred dollar payment to the person who was issued the ticket.

§ 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall have become a law.

EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets

[ ] is old law to be omitted.

LBD08478-01-7

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