A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to allowing vehicles to park on the restricted side of a street which is subject to alternate side parking rules without being ticketed if the owner is in the vehicle and able to move it or if the street has already been cleaned.

Int. No. 20

By Council Members Rodriguez, Deutsch, Chin, Gentile, King, Koo, Levin, Reynoso, Mendez, Constantinides, Greenfield, Lancman, Rosenthal, Palma, Cornegy, Kallos, Johnson, Richards, Espinal, Williams, Levine, Vacca, Ferreras-Copeland, Torres, Barron, Eugene, Miller, Cabrera, Rose, Dromm, Cohen, Koslowitz, Maisel, Crowley, Vallone, Menchaca, Cumbo, Treyger, Van Bramer, Garodnick, Gibson and Ulrich

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to allowing vehicles to park on the restricted side of a street which is subject to alternate side parking rules without being ticketed if the owner is in the vehicle and able to move it or if the street has already been cleaned.

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

                     Section 1.  Chapter two of title 19 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 19-216 to read as follows:

                     § 19-216 Restrictions on issuing notices of violation for alternate side of the street parking violations.  a. For the purposes of this section, the term “roadway” shall mean that portion of the street ordinarily used for vehicular travel.      

b. No notice of violation shall be issued to a driver or owner of a motor vehicle on a day when alternate side parking rules are in effect if the driver or owner is in the vehicle and ready to move such vehicle when the street cleaning vehicle approaches or if the roadway under where such vehicle is parked has already been swept on such day.

                     §2.                     This local law shall take effect sixty days after its enactment into law.

JW

Int. 375/2010

LS 156/2014