Int 0983-2009
Requiring a recycling program for all dry cleaning establishments.
IntroductionFiledCommittee on Sanitation and Solid Waste Managementintroduced 2009-05-06
Filed — closed without being enacted.
Official record · Legistar
Agenda: 2009-05-06Passed: 2009-12-31
Committee on Sanitation and Solid Waste Management — Department of Sanitation and the Business Integrity Commission.
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This bill: 238 days in committee
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Sponsors (15)
Lifecycle
IntroducedIntroduced by Council
2009-05-06 · City Council
ActionReferred to Comm by Council
2009-05-06 · City Council
HeardHearing Held by Committee
2009-10-26 · Committee on Sanitation and Solid Waste Management
HeldLaid Over by Committee
2009-10-26 · Committee on Sanitation and Solid Waste Management
ClosedFiled (End of Session)
2009-12-31 · City Council
Heard at (3)
Committee on Sanitation and Solid Waste Management · 2009-10-26 · 1:00 PM · 250 Broadway - Hearing Room, 16th Fl.
Committee on Sanitation and Solid Waste Management · 2009-10-20 · 10:00 AM · Committee Room - City Hall
City Council · 2009-05-06 · 1:30 PM · Council Chambers - City Hall
Attachments (3)
Full text
Be it enacted by the Council as follows:
Section 1. Title sixteen of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new chapter four-c to read as follows:
CHAPTER 4-C
§16-470 Definitions
§16-471 Hanger reuse or recycling program.
§16-472 Penalties.
§16-470 Definitions. When used in this chapter:
a. “Dry cleaning establishment” means any place of business located within the
city of New York that either as its sole business or as part of its business accepts clothing or other materials from the public for cleaning by the use of solvents other than water.
b. “Consumer” means any person who receives a hanger from a dry cleaning
establishment.
c. “Operator" means a person, firm or corporation that owns or is in control of, or
has responsibility for, the daily operation of a dry cleaning establishment.
§16-471 Hanger reuse or recycling program. a. Any person may return a hanger to a dry cleaning establishment for reuse or recycling that distributes hangers to its customers.
b. Every dry cleaning establishment shall accept from consumers at any time during normal business hours hangers of a similar composition to those which the dry cleaning establishment distributes to consumers for their reuse or recycling.
c. Every dry cleaning establishment shall conspicuously post and maintain, at or near the point of entry to the place of business, a sign, not less than 8 ½ inches by 11 inches in size, stating in legible writing that hangers of a similar composition to the hangers distributed by the dry cleaning establishment may be returned to the dry cleaning establishment for reuse or recycling. Such sign shall state the following in letters at least one-inch in height: “Used hangers should be recycled. We accept them here.”
§16-472 Penalties. a. Any person who violates the provisions of section 16-471 of this chapter shall be liable for a civil penalty recoverable in a proceeding before the environmental control board in the amount of five hundred dollars for the first violation, and one thousand dollars for a second or subsequent violation committed within any twelve-month period.
§2. This local law shall take effect six months after it is enacted.
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