Int 1468-2017
Reducing sewer system backups.
IntroductionFiledCommittee on Environmental Protectionintroduced 2017-02-15
Filed — closed without being enacted.
Official record · Legistar
Agenda: 2017-02-15Passed: 2017-12-31
Summary
The local law amends Title 24 of the New York City Administrative Code, adding a new section a. 5. to 24-503 to require the maintenance measures needed to assure that sewage backups occur no more frequently that fifty per one hundred miles of sewer line, including quarterly cleaning for at least one year.
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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This bill: 319 days in committee
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Sponsors (4)
Lifecycle
IntroducedIntroduced by Council
2017-02-15 · City Council
ActionReferred to Comm by Council
2017-02-15 · City Council
HeardHearing Held by Committee
2017-10-30 · Committee on Environmental Protection
HeldLaid Over by Committee
2017-10-30 · Committee on Environmental Protection
ClosedFiled (End of Session)
2017-12-31 · City Council
Heard at (3)
Committee on Environmental Protection · 2017-10-30 · 2:00 PM · 250 Broadway - Committee Rm, 16th Fl.
Committee on Environmental Protection · 2017-10-23 · 1:00 PM · 250 Broadway - Committee Rm, 16th Fl.
City Council · 2017-02-15 · 1:30 PM · Council Chambers - City Hall
Attachments (6)
- Summary of Int. No. 1468
- February 15, 2017 - Stated Meeting Agenda with Links to Files
- Int. No. 1468
- Committee Report 10/30/17
- Hearing Testimony 10/30/17
- Hearing Transcript 10/30/17
Full text
Be it enacted by the Council as follows:
Section 1. Chapter 5 of title 24 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 24-503.1 to read as follows:
� 24-503.1 Repeat sewer backups. a. As used in this section:
Sewer system. The term "sewer system" means all sewers, drains, pipes and appurtenances owned, operated or maintained by the city and used to convey sewage.
Sewer backup. The term "sewer backup" means a non-permitted release of sewage from the sewer system.
b. The commissioner of environmental protection shall ensure that where a sewer backup occurs more than once, at the same location within a twelve month period, the portion of the sewer system causing the second or subsequent backup is identified and cleaned within 10 days of such subsequent backup.
�2. This local law takes effect immediately.
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