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Int 2069-2020

Suspend certain civil offenses during the COVID-19 pandemic.

IntroductionFiledCommittee on Governmental Operationsintroduced 2020-08-27

Filed — closed without being enacted.

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Agenda: 2020-08-27Passed: 2021-12-31

Summary

This bill would suspend certain parking, DOB, and sanitation offenses and invalidate enforcement actions for those offenses for the period in time during which a state of emergency has been declared by the mayor of New York city or governor of New York related to the COVID-19 virus.

Committee on Governmental OperationsMunicipal governmental structure and organization, Department of Citywide Administrative Services, Office of Administrative Trials and Hearings, Community Boards, Tax Commission, Board of Standards and Appeals, Campaign Finance Board, Board of Elections, Voter Assistance Commission, Commission on Public Information and Communication, Department of Records and Information Services, Financial Information Services Agency and Law Department.

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11 passed · 39 died

This bill: 490 days in committee

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Sponsors (2)

Lifecycle

IntroducedIntroduced by Council
2020-08-27 · City Council
ActionReferred to Comm by Council
2020-08-27 · City Council
ClosedFiled (End of Session)
2021-12-31 · City Council

Heard at (1)

City Council · 2020-08-27 · 1:30 PM · - REMOTE HEARING (VIRTUAL ROOM 1) -

Attachments (5)

Full text
Be it enacted by the Council as follows: Section 1. a. During the period in which any state of emergency has been declared by the mayor of New York city or governor of New York related to the COVID-19 virus, the following laws and rules are suspended and any enforcement actions taken pursuant to such laws and rules shall have no effect: 1. Any failure to clean outside residences and businesses one and a half feet into the street pursuant to subdivision 2 of section 16-118; 2. Any failure to recycle pursuant to 16 RCNY �� 1-08, 1-09, and 1-10; 3. Any failure to abide by street cleaning regulations, parking meter regulations, no parking in school zone regulations, or no standing in school zone regulations established pursuant to 34 RCNY 4-08; and 4. Any violations subject to civil penalties pursuant to section 28-202.1 or section 28-202.2 b. Any payments made for violations enumerated in subdivision a shall be refunded. � 2. This local law takes effect immediately. D.A. LS 15017 8.17.20 1