This week, Gotham’s street-sweeper scofflaws might return to their parked car to find a bright green sticker.

“This vehicle violated NYC street cleaning rules,” reads the neon-green tag. “As a result, this street could not be properly cleaned.”

The so-called “shame stickers” are back in the city after a 15-year hiatus, stuck by Department of Sanitation workers on the car windows of drivers who refuse to follow the city’s alternate-side parking rule and make way for street sweepers.

Violating the alternate-side rules — which vary by neighborhood and can see the streets swept anywhere from one to three times a week — already nets New Yorkers a $65 fine.

But too many of the Big Apple’s drivers have apparently decided the fine is an acceptable cost to stay parked on a city street — cheaper, at least, than many of the city’s private parking lots.

The stickers were a mainstay of parking enforcement for decades in the city before the City Council nixed them in 2011.

But in June, the Council passed a bill by Manhattan Democrat Gale Brewer re-authorizing the Sanitation Department to once again start slapping the overstaying cars with stickers.

Sanitation Commissioner Gregory Anderson lauded the law at the time, saying it reversed “a grave mistake made by a prior City Council and gives us an additional tool to help us effectively clean the city’s streets.”

“Selfish car owners who prioritize their convenience over clean neighborhoods will soon be peeling stickers off their cars, while also paying for a summons,” Anderson said in a statement. “Our goal is neither writing summonses nor using stickers. We want people to simply comply with the law, so we can clean streets across New York City.”

A department spokesman said Thursday that the tags are not meant for every vehicle that violates the rules, but rather as a tool to motivate persistent violators, or those on streets where too many drivers refuse to move their cars.

“We ordered 10,000 stickers to start, a small amount compared to the roughly 500,000 cars that do not move for alternate-side parking rules every week,” DSNY spokesman Vincent Gragnani told the Daily News. “We used a few dozen of those stickers yesterday across the city, and will continue using them on blocks where multiple cars prevent our sweepers from picking up litter and debris.”

“The purpose of these stickers is to get cars to move,” Gragnani added, “so that we can deliver the clean streets all New Yorkers deserve.”