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Int 0240-2014

Filing semiannual reports on catch basin cleanup and maintenance

IntroductionEnactedCommittee on Environmental Protectionintroduced 2014-03-26Local Law 2015/048

Enacted as Local Law 2015/048.

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Agenda: 2014-03-26Passed: 2015-06-02Enacted: 2015-06-02

Summary

This bill would require NYCDEP to submit semiannual reports to the Mayor and City Council regarding the inspection, maintenance and repair of catch basins, disaggregated by community district. The bill would also require NYCDEP to inspect every catch basin at least once per year, and to unclog/repair a catch basin within nine days from when a complaint is filed.

Committee on Environmental ProtectionDepartment of Environmental Protection and Office of Long Term Planning and Sustainability and Office of Recovery and Resiliency.

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8 passed · 42 died

This bill: 410 days in committee

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Sponsors (33)

Lifecycle

IntroducedIntroduced by Council
2014-03-26 · City Council
ActionReferred to Comm by Council
2014-03-26 · City Council
HeardHearing Held by Committee
2014-12-04 · Committee on Environmental Protection
HeldLaid Over by Committee
2014-12-04 · Committee on Environmental Protection
HeardHearing Held by Committee
2015-05-11 · Committee on Environmental Protection
ActionAmendment Proposed by Comm
2015-05-11 · Committee on Environmental Protection
ActionAmended by Committee
2015-05-11 · Committee on Environmental Protection
AdvancedApproved by Committee
2015-05-11 · Committee on Environmental Protection
AdvancedApproved by Council
2015-05-14 · City Council
ActionSent to Mayor by Council
2015-05-14 · City Council
HeardHearing Held by Mayor
2015-06-02 · Mayor
AdvancedSigned Into Law by Mayor
2015-06-02 · Mayor
ActionRecved from Mayor by Council
2015-06-02 · City Council

Votes (5)

Aye (4)
Stephen T. LevinEric A. UlrichDonovan J. RichardsCosta G. Constantinides
Absent (1)
Rory I. Lancman

Heard at (4)

City Council · 2015-05-14 · 1:30 PM · Council Chambers - City Hall
Committee on Environmental Protection · 2015-05-11 · 10:00 AM · 250 Broadway - Committee Rm, 14th Fl.
Committee on Environmental Protection · 2014-12-04 · 11:00 AM · 250 Broadway - Committee Rm, 16th Fl.
City Council · 2014-03-26 · 1:30 PM · Council Chambers - City Hall

Attachments (16)

Full text
Be it enacted by the Council as follows: Section 1. Section 24-503 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new subdivision f to read as follows: f. The commissioner of environmental protection shall submit semiannual reports to the mayor and the speaker of the council regarding the inspection, maintenance and repair of catch basins within the jurisdiction of the commissioner, disaggregated by community district. The first semiannual report shall cover the period from July 1, 2016, through December 31, 2016. Such reports shall include the number of catch basins inspected, the number of clogged or malfunctioning catch basins identified, the number of catch basins unclogged or repaired, whether the inspection was in response to a complaint, and the response time for resolution of any complaint. The commissioner of environmental protection shall also ensure that such catch basins are inspected, at a minimum, once every year, and are unclogged or repaired within nine days after an inspection or the receipt of a complaint about a clogged or malfunctioning catch basin. Catch basins not unclogged or repaired within nine days after an inspection or the receipt of a complaint shall be identified in the semiannual report. � 2. This local law takes effect July 1, 2016, and expires and is deemed repealed June 30, 2019, except that the commissioner of environmental protection shall submit a report in accordance with subdivision f of section 24-503 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as added by section one of this local law, for the period from January 1, 2019, through June 30, 2019. LS# 506 3/12/14 SS 5:19 p.m. LS # 3881 5/6/15 3:27 p.m.