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William FarringtonWilliam Farrington

You have five minutes to move your car — or it will cost you.

Of the 1.47 million street-cleaning tickets traffic agents gave out in fiscal year 2015, a mere 6,000 were given to vehicles violating alternate-side parking rules within the first five minutes, city records analyzed by The Post and AAA Northeast show.

But in the next five minutes, the number of summonses rocketed by nearly 60 times to 350,000 violations. Traffic agents dished out 93,000 violations alone in the sixth minute of the beginning of a street’s alternate-side designation, the records show.

The agents preferred to ruin drivers’ days in the morning.

Of the roughly 9.1 million total parking violations agents distributed during fiscal year 2015, 986,003, or 11 percent, were given in the hour beginning at 9 a.m.

Tuesday was the likeliest day for agents to give out tickets (1.66 million), and June was the most popular month (852,659).

But agents did give motorists a break on the holidays, handing out only 1,195 tickets on Christmas 2014, the records show.

The city hauled in $658 million from parking summonses in FY 2015, up 12 percent from the previous year when it took in $588 million, records show.

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