Int 2457-2021

Be it enacted by the Council as follows: Section 1. Section 16-119 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new subdivision i to read as follows: i. Photograph, report and remove unlawful dumping on collection routes. 1. Each department collection truck shall photograph any unlawful dumping that is located on public property on its collection route and report such unlawful dumping to the commissioner who shall ensure the department removes such unlawful dumping. The commissioner shall promulgate any rules necessary and appropriate to the administration of this paragraph. 2. No later than 48 hours after a department collection truck completes its collection route, the commissioner shall publish on the department's website and update, as appropriate, information on each instance of unlawful dumping photographed and reported pursuant to paragraph 1 of this section. Such information shall include a table, disaggregated by community district, in which each separate row references a unique instance of unlawful dumping. Each such row shall include the following information about each unique instance of unlawful dumping, as well as any additional information the commissioner deems appropriate, set forth in separate columns: (a) The date that a department collection truck photographed and reported such unlawful dumping; (b) The location of such unlawful dumping; (c) A brief description of such unlawful dumping; and (d) Whether the department removed such unlawful dumping, and its date of removal, if applicable. 3. Beginning one year after the effective date of the local law that added this subdivision, and annually thereafter, the commissioner shall submit a report on the unique instances of unlawful dumping photographed and reported pursuant to paragraph 1 of this section, by month, to the mayor and the speaker of the council and shall post such report on the department's website. Such annual report shall include the following information, as well as any additional information the commissioner deems appropriate, for each community district: (a) The number of unique instances of unlawful dumping that department collection trucks photographed and reported; (b) The number and percent of such instances of unlawful dumping that the commissioner removed; and (c) The average amount of time that the commissioner took to remove such instances of unlawful dumping, after a department collection truck photographed and reported such. � 2. This local law takes effect 120 days after it becomes law, except that the commissioner of sanitation shall take such measures as are necessary for the implementation of this local law, including the promulgation of rules, before such date. NLB LS #18148 11/15/21 1 1 2 3