Int 0849-2008
Creating civil penalties for damaging memorials honoring firefighters, police officers, or armed services members.
IntroductionFiledCommittee on Public Safetyintroduced 2008-10-07
Filed — closed without being enacted.
Official record · Legistar
Agenda: 2008-10-07Passed: 2009-12-31
Committee on Public Safety — Police Department, Civilian Complaint Review Board, and Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice, courts, legal services, District Attorneys, and the Office of the Special Narcotics Prosecutor.
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Sponsors (12)
Lifecycle
IntroducedIntroduced by Council
2008-10-07 · City Council
ActionReferred to Comm by Council
2008-10-07 · City Council
HeardHearing Held by Committee
2008-10-27 · Committee on Public Safety
ActionAmendment Proposed by Comm
2008-10-27 · Committee on Public Safety
HeldLaid Over by Committee
2008-10-27 · Committee on Public Safety
ClosedFiled (End of Session)
2009-12-31 · City Council
Heard at (2)
Committee on Public Safety · 2008-10-27 · 10:00 AM · Council Chambers - City Hall
City Council · 2008-10-07 · 1:30 PM · Council Chambers - City Hall
Attachments (4)
- Int. No. 849 - 10/7/08
- Committee Report 10/27/08
- Hearing Testimony 10/27/08
- Hearing Transcript 10/27/08
Full text
Be it enacted by the Council as follows:
Section 1. Chapter one of title 10 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended to add a new section 10-167, to read as follows:
§ 10-167 Damage to or defacement of memorials to firefighters, police officers, or armed service members prohibited. Any person who willfully and without authority breaks, defaces or otherwise damages any plaque, mural, structure, or other memorial, whose purpose, in whole or in part, is to honor any firefighter, police officer, or armed service member, shall be subject to a civil penalty of not less than ten thousand dollars and not more than twenty-five thousand dollars. Such civil penalty shall be in addition to any criminal penalty or sanction that may be imposed, and such civil penalty shall not limit or preclude any cause of action available to any person or entity aggrieved by any of the acts prohibited by this section.
§2. This local law shall take effect immediately upon its enactment into law.
O.P.
LS 5630
10/22/08