By Olivia Scheck
DNAinfo Reporter/Producer
MANHATTAN — New Yorkers now have five extra minutes to move their car for alternate-side parking or expired Muni meters after a new law went into effect on Sunday.
The grace period law was passed last year by the City Council, and overrode a veto by Mayor Michael Bloomberg who said the law would lead to chaos.
"It's not going to end the recession, but it gives people a little bit of a break in a tough time," City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, who helped spearhead the legislation, told the Daily News.
The law was passed with nearly unanimous support by the City Council in November, despite Bloomberg’s initial veto of the bill.
“A five-minute grace period is only going to lead to chaos and enormous increases in the number of contested tickets, and in argument,” the mayor told the New York Times.
The Council overrode Bloomberg's veto by a vote of 47-to-2.
The new law does not apply to coin-operated, single space meters, which do not display how much time has elapsed since the meter expired, according to the Times.
