Int 0309-2024

Be it enacted by the Council as follows: Section 1. Paragraph 2 of subdivision c of section 7-201 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended to read as follows: 2. No civil action shall be maintained against the city for damage to property or injury to person or death sustained in consequence of any street, highway, bridge, wharf, culvert, sidewalk or crosswalk, or any part or portion of any of the foregoing including any encumbrances thereon or attachments thereto, being out of repair, unsafe, dangerous or obstructed, unless it appears that written notice of the defective, unsafe, dangerous or obstructed condition, was actually given to the commissioner of transportation or any person or department authorized by the commissioner to receive such notice, or where there was previous injury to person or property as a result of the existence of the defective, unsafe, dangerous or obstructed condition, and written notice thereof was given to a city agency, or there was written acknowledgement from the city of the defective, unsafe, dangerous or obstructed condition, and there was failure or neglect within [fifteen] 15 days after the receipt of such notice to repair or remove the defect, danger or obstruction complained of, or the place otherwise made reasonably safe, provided that for the purposes of this subdivision, submission of a complaint or similar information relating to the defective, unsafe, dangerous or obstructed condition to the city's 311 system, or a successor system, shall constitute written notice to the commissioner of transportation. � 2. This local law takes effect 120 days after it becomes law. Session 13 LS 942 1/16/24 Session 12 NLB LS 942 1/24/22 1 1