What's happening
This bill requires police departments to electronically send stolen vehicle reports to parking violations bureaus within five days.
Why it matters
Reduces wrongful parking fines for car theft victims. By ensuring police transmit stolen vehicle reports directly to parking ticket bureaus, the bill helps prevent owners from being held responsible for violations that occur after their car was stolen.
Automates and speeds up the reporting process. Electronic transmission within five days makes it less likely that stolen car reports will be lost, delayed, or overlooked, streamlining communication between police and ticketing agencies.
Shifts burden of proof away from victims. The bill allows the presence of an electronically filed stolen vehicle report at the parking bureau to serve as a valid defense, making it easier for victims to contest tickets without having to provide additional paperwork themselves.
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- Referred to transportation
- Referred to transportation
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STATE OF NEW YORK
3536
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 27, 2017
Introduced by M. of A. LENTOL -- 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 Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 239 of the vehicle and traffic law, as added by chapter 180 of the laws of 1980, is amended to read as follows:
3. Stolen vehicles. If any owner of a motor vehicle receives a notice of violation for a period during which the illegally parked vehicle was reported to any police department as having been stolen, it shall be a valid defense to any charge of a parking violation that the motor vehicle had been reported to the police as stolen prior to the time the violation occurred and had not been recovered by such time. The police department shall electronically transmit to the parking violations bureau, who shall receive and keep on file, a copy of each report of stolen vehicle within five days of the report's completion. For the purposes of asserting the defense provided by this subdivision, it shall be a sufficient defense that [a]:
a. A copy of the electronically transmitted police report of the stolen vehicle is on file with the parking violations bureau, or
b. A certified copy of the police report of the stolen vehicle [be] has been mailed to the parking violations bureau.
§ 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD03819-01-7
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