Serial street-sweeper scofflaws, beware. You possibly can quickly be on digicam.
The Metropolis Council Wednesday voted to provide its consent to a proposed state legislation that will allow avenue sweepers to routinely difficulty alternate-side parking tickets to any car slotted alongside the unsuitable curb.
“This is a common-sense bill that will make our streets demonstrably cleaner,” CouncilMember Lincoln Restler (D – Brooklyn), who sponsored the invoice, mentioned in an announcement. “We’re talking about cracking down on the worst offenders to ultimately facilitate greater compliance, which means fewer rats and better quality of life for all New Yorkers.”
The Council voted 41 to eight to cross the laws.
The invoice is a so-called “Home Rule message,” which means it merely signifies the Metropolis’s intention to cooperate with a state legislation that’s but to cross.
The state invoice — generally known as S1891 within the senate, and A4523 within the meeting — has but to get out of committee in both home.
If handed, the legislation would permit town to mount cameras on the Division of Sanitation’s fleet of street-sweepers to {photograph} and routinely ticket any autos parked alongside the curb throughout cleansing hours.
The automated tickets can be capped at $50, and be topic to a further $25 late payment.
“Just as bus cameras protect transit riders, broom cameras will safeguard publichealth and urban dignity,” mentioned state Sen. Robert Jackson (D – Manhattan). “This isn’t about punishment—it’s about progress.”
The legislation would additionally permit images taken by the sweeper-mounted cameras to be offered to legislation enforcement in response to a warrant.
