Int 0893-2015
Locating electrical conductors underground.
IntroductionFiledCommittee on Transportationintroduced 2015-09-17
Filed — closed without being enacted.
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Agenda: 2015-09-17Passed: 2017-12-31
Summary
This bill would require all electrical conductors located above ground throughout the City be placed underground.
Committee on Transportation — Mass Transportation Agencies and facilities, Department of Transportation and New York City Transit Authority.
How it compares
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5 passed · 45 died
This bill: 835 days in committee
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Sponsors (9)
Lifecycle
IntroducedIntroduced by Council
2015-09-17 · City Council
ActionReferred to Comm by Council
2015-09-17 · City Council
ClosedFiled (End of Session)
2017-12-31 · City Council
Heard at (1)
City Council · 2015-09-17 · 1:30 PM · Council Chambers - City Hall
Attachments (2)
Full text
Be it enacted by the Council as follows:
Section 1. Chapter four of title 24 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 24-424 to read as follows:
�24-424 Underground electrical conductors. The commissioner of transportation shall notify the owners or operators of electrical conductors located above ground on any street within the counties of Bronx, Kings, Queens and Richmond that, where feasible all electrical conductors shall be placed underground within a certain time, sufficient for the proper construction of underground conduits or other channels in such street, to be fixed by such commissioner.
�2. This local law shall take effect ninety days after its enactment.
KS
2/20/14 2:45PM
LS 561/2014