Int 0677-2024
Signs near diaper changing tables.
IntroductionFiledCommittee on Environmental Protection, Resiliency and Waterfrontsintroduced 2024-03-19
Filed — closed without being enacted.
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Agenda: 2024-03-19Passed: 2025-12-31
Summary
This bill would require that, where a building contains a restroom intended for public or common use, a building owner must post a sign in or near each restroom that contains a diaper changing table stating that baby wipes should not be flushed.
Committee on Environmental Protection, Resiliency and Waterfronts — Department of Environmental Protection and Office of Long Term Planning and Sustainability and Office of Recovery and Resiliency.
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6 passed · 44 died
This bill: 652 days in committee
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Sponsors (5)
Lifecycle
IntroducedIntroduced by Council
2024-03-19 · City Council
ActionReferred to Comm by Council
2024-03-19 · City Council
ClosedFiled (End of Session)
2025-12-31 · City Council
Heard at (1)
City Council · 2024-03-19 · 1:30 PM · Council Chambers - City Hall
Attachments (5)
- Summary of Int. No. 677
- Int. No. 677
- March 19, 2024 - Stated Meeting Agenda
- Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 3-19-24
- Minutes of the Stated Meeting - March 19, 2024
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 24-518.2 to read as follows:
� 24-518.2 Signs near diaper changing tables. The owner of a building containing space that (i) is intended for public or common use and (ii) contains a diaper changing table within a restroom shall post and maintain a sign on or near the entrance to each such restroom stating that baby wipes should not be flushed. Such sign shall be posted and maintained in a form and manner determined by the commissioner of environmental protection.
� 2. This local law takes effect immediately.
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