Int 0016-1998
Public Litter Baskets, Fines For Dumping
IntroductionFiledCommittee on Environmental Protectionintroduced 1998-01-22
Filed — closed without being enacted.
Official record · Legistar
Agenda: 1998-01-22Passed: 2001-12-31
Committee on Environmental Protection — Department of Environmental Protection and Office of Long Term Planning and Sustainability and Office of Recovery and Resiliency.
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8 passed · 42 died
This bill: 1439 days in committee
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Sponsors (12)
Peter F. Vallone(prime)
Martin Malave-Dilan
Howard L. Lasher
Guillermo Linares
Kenneth K. Fisher
Lloyd Henry
Wendell Foster
Sheldon S. Leffler
Walter L. McCaffrey
Jerome X. O'Donovan
Victor L. Robles
John D. Sabini
Lifecycle
IntroducedIntroduced by Council
1998-01-22 · City Council
ActionReferred to Comm by Council
1998-01-22 · City Council
ActionPrinted Item Laid on Desk
1998-02-12 · Legislative Documents Unit
ClosedFiled (End of Session)
2001-12-31 · City Council
Full text
Be it enacted by the Council as follows:
Section 1. Subdivision e of section 16-120 of of the administrative code of the City of New York is hereby REPEALED and subdivisions f through i are re-lettered e through h respectively.
�2. Chapter one of title sixteen of such code is hereby amended by the adding thereto a new section �16-119.1, to follow �16-119, to read as follows:
�16-119.1. Public litter receptacles.
a. No person shall deposit household or commercial refuse, incinerator residue or ashes, or liquid wastes in an open mesh litter basket placed on the streets by the department or any other person.
b. Any person violating the provisions of this section shall be liable for a civil penalty of not less than one hundred dollars nor more than three hundred dollars.
�3. This local law shall take effect thirty days after its enactment into law.
Referred to the Committee on Environmental Protection.
HL:ts
Int. 329