What's happening
This bill amends traffic law to exempt certain parking and standing violations in New York City from local regulation.
Why it matters
Narrows Local Power Over Parking Rules. By specifying that local governments in NYC cannot regulate certain parking and standing violations (except those related to a specific subsection of state law), the bill limits the ability of city agencies to create or enforce their own rules in these areas, centralizing authority at the state level.
Potential for Uniformity – or Gaps – in Enforcement. This change could create more consistent parking regulations citywide, but it may also prevent NYC from addressing unique local parking issues or responding quickly to evolving needs, which could impact traffic flow, pedestrian safety, and access for emergency vehicles.
Impact on Fines and Revenue. Since many parking violations generate significant revenue for the city, restricting local enforcement could reduce this income, possibly affecting city budgets and funding for services like street maintenance, transit, or safety programs.
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Clarify City Parking Rules
Plain English, a few words. Used as the page title.
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History
- Referred to transportation
Companion bill
The same bill in the other chamber. A bill becomes law when one version passes both houses and the governor signs it, so either number can carry it.
Change NYC Parking Rules
In Assembly Committee · Transportation · Sponsor Jo Anne Simon
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STATE OF NEW YORK
445
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE (Prefiled)
January 8, 2025
Introduced by Sen. HOYLMAN-SIGAL -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation
AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to traffic regulations for parking or standing vehicles in cities having a population in excess of one million
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Paragraph 2 of subdivision (a) of section 1642 of the vehicle and traffic law is amended to read as follows:
2. Parking, standing, stopping and backing of vehicles, except in violation of subparagraph b of paragraph two of subdivision (a) of section twelve hundred two of this chapter.
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD01912-01-5
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Sponsor's memo
Title of bill
An act to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to traffic regulations for parking or standing vehicles in cities having a popu- lation in excess of one million
Purpose
Improve Pedestrian safety at all Intersections of traffic.
Summary of provisions
Section one amends paragraph 2 of subdivision (a) of section 1642 of the vehicle and traffic law relating to traffic regulations to remove the daylighting exemption for cities having a population in excess of one million.
Section two is the effective date.
Justification
A recent study by the Prospect Heights Neighborhood Development Corpo- ration (PHNDC) from November of 2023 has found that not a single inter- section of the thickly settled neighborhood of Prospect Heights, Brook- lyn, followed state daylighting laws. Daylighting, which bans parking within 20 feet of crosswalks, is a safety measure that increases visi- bility of pedestrians as they cross the street. After the untimely deaths of two individuals at intersections in the vicinity in 2023, one of whom was a 7-year-old child crossing near his school, a City Council bill was introduced to require daylighting at all intersections within a half-mile of a school. All 54 intersections of the Prospect Heights neighborhood are within a half mile of a school, and this is true of many densely populated neighborhoods in New York City. The study found that these deaths were preventable because visibility was impaired by the lack of daylighting. In fact, the intersections along Vanderbilt Avenue in Prospect Heights ranked among the top 10% of Brooklyn streets for persons killed or being badly injured from 2016 to 2020. Had these intersections complied with the state daylighting laws pedestrian visi- bility would have not been a factor in traffic violence.
For years, New York City has been exempted from the state's daylighting law and that exemption is no longer tenable. This bill would repeal that exemption.
Legislative history
2023-24: S.9769 Referred to Transportation
Fiscal implications
None.
Effective date
Act takes effect immediately
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