Int 1244-2016
Increasing the penalties for the unlawful opening of fire hydrants.
IntroductionFiledCommittee on Environmental Protectionintroduced 2016-08-16
Filed — closed without being enacted.
Official record · Legistar
Agenda: 2016-08-16Passed: 2017-12-31
Summary
This bill would increase the minimum penalties for the unlawful opening, use, operation, or tampering with a fire hydrant from 50 to 250 dollars.
Committee on Environmental Protection — Department of Environmental Protection and Office of Long Term Planning and Sustainability and Office of Recovery and Resiliency.
How it compares
12% of similar bills passed
6 passed · 44 died
This bill: 502 days in committee
Similar bills: median 671 days · 292 days when passed
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Sponsors (3)
Lifecycle
IntroducedIntroduced by Council
2016-08-16 · City Council
ActionReferred to Comm by Council
2016-08-16 · City Council
ClosedFiled (End of Session)
2017-12-31 · City Council
Heard at (1)
City Council · 2016-08-16 · 1:30 PM · Council Chambers - City Hall
Attachments (2)
Full text
Be it enacted by the Council as follows:
Section 1. Subdivision b of section 24-346 of chapter 3 of title 24 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended to read as follows:
b. Any person who violates or fails to comply with any of the provisions of this chapter and chapter four of this title or any order, rule or regulation issued by the board or commissioner or with the conditions of any permit issued by the commissioner within the city of New York shall be liable for a civil penalty of not less than fifty nor more than one thousand dollars for each violation, except that the civil penalty for the removal of a manhole cover in violation of section 24-304 shall be not less than two thousand five hundred dollars nor more than ten thousand dollars, and except that the civil penalty for the unlawful opening, use, operation, or tampering with a fire hydrant or high pressure hydrant in violation of section 24-308 shall be not less than two hundred fifty dollars. In the case of a continuing violation each day's continuance shall be a separate and distinct offense. The [environmental control board] office of administrative trials and hearings shall have the power to impose such civil penalties. A proceeding to impose such penalties shall be commenced by the service of a notice of violation returnable to such [board] office. Such [board] office, after a hearing as provided by the rules and regulations of the [board] office, shall have the power to enforce its final decisions and orders imposing such civil penalties as if they were money judgments pursuant to subdivision d of section one thousand forty-nine-a of the New York city charter. A civil penalty imposed by the board may also be collected in an action brought in the name of the city in any court of competent jurisdiction. The board, in its discretion, may, within the limits set forth in this subdivision, establish a schedule of civil penalties indicating the minimum and maximum penalty for each separate offense.
� 2. This local law takes effect immediately.
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