Int 0823-2000
Requiring plastic bags used for waste disposal to be placed within containers.
IntroductionFiledCommittee on Environmental Protectionintroduced 2000-10-12
Filed — closed without being enacted.
Official record · Legistar
Agenda: 2000-10-12Passed: 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.
How it compares
18% of similar bills passed
9 passed · 41 died
This bill: 444 days in committee
Similar bills: median 1015 days · 249 days when passed
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Sponsors (24)
Tracy L. Boyland
Adolfo Carrion
Una Clarke
Martin Malave-Dilan
Pedro G. Espada
Kathryn E. Freed
Julia Harrison
Lloyd Henry
Guillermo Linares
Margarita Lopez
Helen M. Marshall
Stanley E. Michels
Eva S. Moskowitz
Angel Rodriguez
John D. Sabini
Lawrence A. Warden
Juanita E. Watkins
Sheldon S. Leffler
Jose Rivera
Thomas White
Annette M. Robinson
Lifecycle
IntroducedIntroduced by Council
2000-10-12 · City Council
ActionReferred to Comm by Council
2000-10-12 · City Council
ActionPrinted Item Laid on Desk
2000-10-12 · Legislative Documents Unit
ClosedFiled (End of Session)
2001-12-31 · City Council
Heard at (2)
Committee on Housing and Buildings · 2000-11-09 · 1:00 PM · Council Chambers - City Hall
City Council · 2000-10-12 · 1:30 PM · Council Chambers - City Hall
Full text
Be it enacted by the Council as follows:
Section 1. Subdivision a of section 16-120 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended to read as follows:
a. The owner, lessee, agent, occupant or other person who manages or controls a building or dwelling shall provide and maintain in accordance with this section separate receptacles for the deposit of incinerator residue and ashes; refuse, and liquid waste. The receptacles shall be provided for the exclusive use of each building or dwelling and shall be of sufficient size and number to contain the wastes accumulated in such building or dwelling during a period of seventy-two hours. The receptacles shall be made of metal or other rigid material of a grade and type acceptable to the department, the department of health and the department of housing preservation and development. Receptacles used for liquid waste shall be constructed so as to hold their contents without leakage. Refuse and liquid waste shall be stored directly within a bag made of plastic or such other material as the commissioner may authorize which shall be placed within a receptacle. Metal containers Containers shall be provided with tight fitting metal covers.
�2. This local law shall take effect immediately.
LS No. 3442
AS\ 10/2000