Int 0150-1998
Buildings Vacant, Sealing
IntroductionFiledCommittee on Housing and Buildingsintroduced 1998-02-26
Filed — closed without being enacted.
Official record · Legistar
Agenda: 1998-02-26Passed: 2001-12-31
Committee on Housing and Buildings — Department of Housing Preservation and Development, Department of Buildings and rent regulation.
How it compares
10% of similar bills passed
5 passed · 45 died
This bill: 1404 days in committee
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Sponsors (11)
Herbert E. Berman(prime)
Martin Malave-Dilan
Una Clarke
Guillermo Linares
Priscilla A. Wooten
Alphonse Stabile
Lucy Cruz
Wendell Foster
Julia Harrison
Howard L. Lasher
Lawrence A. Warden
Lifecycle
IntroducedIntroduced by Council
1998-02-26 · City Council
ActionReferred to Comm by Council
1998-02-26 · City Council
ActionPrinted Item Laid on Desk
1998-03-17 · Legislative Documents Unit
ClosedFiled (End of Session)
2001-12-31 · City Council
Full text
Be it enacted by the Council as follows:
Section one. Chapter one of title twenty-six of the administrative code of the city of New York is hereby amended by adding thereto a new section 26-235.5 to read as follows:
�26.235.5 Sealing vacant buildings near schools. Any property referred to in section 26.235 of this chapter, title and code, which is located within a one block radius of any building within which the New York City Board of Education conducts classes, shall be considered detrimental to the health and morals of the students, shall be given emergency status and shall be scaled before all other buildings awaiting such action.
�2. This local law shall take effect immediately upon its enactment.