Int 0898-2012
Sound level of food vendor vehicles, pushcarts and green carts.
IntroductionFiledCommittee on Environmental Protectionintroduced 2012-07-25
Filed — closed without being enacted.
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Agenda: 2012-07-25Passed: 2013-12-31
Committee on Environmental Protection — Department of Environmental Protection and Office of Long Term Planning and Sustainability and Office of Recovery and Resiliency.
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Lifecycle
IntroducedIntroduced by Council
2012-07-25 · City Council
ActionReferred to Comm by Council
2012-07-25 · City Council
ClosedFiled (End of Session)
2013-12-31 · City Council
Heard at (1)
City Council · 2012-07-25 · 1:30 PM · Council Chambers - City Hall
Full text
Be it enacted by the Council as follows:
Section 1. Subchapter 2 of chapter 3 of title 17 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 17-315.1 to read as follows:
§ 17-315.1 Restrictions on the sound level of food vending vehicles, pushcarts and green carts. No vending vehicle, pushcart or green cart used in the operation of a food vending business shall create a sound level in excess of 65 dB(A) when measured at a distance of one meter or more from the nearest major surface of such food vending vehicle, pushcart or green cart.
§ 2. Subchapter 5 of chapter 2 of title 24 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 24-227.1, to read as follows:
§ 24-227.1 Vending vehicles, pushcarts and green carts. No person shall operate or cause to be operated a vending vehicle, pushcart or green cart used in the operation of a food vendor’s business in such a manner as to create a sound level in excess of 65 dB(A) when measured at a distance of one meter or more from the nearest major surface of such vending vehicle, pushcart or green cart.
§ 3. This local law shall take effect one hundred eighty days after its enactment.
LS 2591
TBD
12/13/11