New bill would trash NYC ticketing over garbage during Jewish Sabbath

Source: New York Post

City sanitation workers would be banned from issuing trash-related fines to New Yorkers during some weekend hours — including during the Jewish Sabbath — under a new proposed state bill. The bill, introduced by Assembly member Simcha Eichenstein on Monday, seeks to change the Sanitation Department’s “discriminatory” evening curbside garbage drop-off rules, which have resulted in $50 to $300 fines for Orthodox Jewish residents who are prohibited from handling trash during the religious observance, the pol said. 3 State Assemblyman and Borough Park, Brooklyn, resident Simcha Eichenstein calls the city’s trash rules “discriminatory.