NEW YORK – A new bill, introduced Thursday in the New York City Council, proposes that New Yorkers be rewarded with money for reporting a car that does not meet parking rules.
If passed, the legislation would allow people to report any driver who parks in bike lanes, bus lanes, or crosswalks. The city would give anyone who files the report a portion of the fine money if the driver is found guilty of the violation. The bill would also increase fines for illegal parking from $ 115 to $ 175.
“Ad abuse continues to be a scourge on the streets of our city despite repeated efforts to end it,” New York City Council President Corey Johnson said in a tweet Thursday. “This new bill would give New Yorkers the power to end this through collective real-time reporting and appropriately stiff penalties.”
The city’s Department of Environmental Protection already has a similar program in which individuals who witness and search an idle truck or bus can present an online complaint and collect 25% of the fine: $ 87.50 of a fine of $ 350.
Two thousand complaints came in last year. The city paid a total of $ 175,000 in rewards to those who filed complaints.
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