Int 0197-1998
Building Construction, Protection
IntroductionFiledCommittee on Housing and Buildingsintroduced 1998-02-26
Filed — closed without being enacted.
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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
16% of similar bills passed
8 passed · 42 died
This bill: 1404 days in committee
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Sponsors (11)
Walter L. McCaffrey(prime)
Thomas K. Duane
Kathryn E. Freed
Guillermo Linares
Alphonse Stabile
Lucy Cruz
Sheldon S. Leffler
Stanley E. Michels
Jerome X. O'Donovan
Annette M. Robinson
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 1. Article twenty of chapter one of title 27 of the administrative code of the city of New York is hereby amended by adding a new section 27-204.1 to read as follows:
�27-204.1 Securing buildings undergoing construction.
All buildings undergoing new or substantially rehabilitated construction shall be secured adequately to protect such construction against vandalism. Such measures may include but not be limited to, padlocked fencing, cinder blocks facing or a security guard. Such requirement shall only apply if construction ceases for periods exceeding forty-eight hours and premises are to be left unattended. The owner of such building or contractor of such project shall also notify the local police precinct that construction shall cease.
�2. This local law shall take effect thirty days after enactment.