L.L. 2008/005

Enactment date: 2/19/2008

Int. No. 630-A

By Council Members Gennaro, Brewer, Fidler, Gentile, Gonzalez, James, Koppell, McMahon, Nelson, Recchia Jr., Reyna, Sanders Jr., Stewart, Weprin, Liu, Mark-Viverito, White Jr., Eugene, Sears, Katz and Garodnick

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the City of New York, in relation to developing and implementing a sustainable stormwater management plan.

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

Section 1. Legislative findings and intent. The Council finds that New York City receives, on average, 44 inches of precipitation a year, more than most other major United States cities. The combined sanitary and storm sewer system is designed to divert stormwater runoff during certain precipitation events to ambient surface waters so that the flow to wastewater treatment plants does not exceed their capacity or cause the backup of sewer water into residences and onto streets. As a result of combined sewer overflows, an average of approximately 27 billion gallons of combined sewage and stormwater are discharged, untreated, into the City's ambient surface waters in a typical year.

It has been reported that such combined sewer overflows ("CSOs") introduce significant amounts of bacteria such as fecal coliform and other pollutants such as nitrogen, into the City's waterbodies, posing a danger to the public health, damaging the ecology, and making some of such waterbodies unsuitable for many recreational activities. In portions of the City where separate sewers convey sanitary sewage and stormwater, untreated stormwater discharge carries significant amounts of bacteria and other pollutants, as does stormwater that by-passes the sewer system altogether and flows directly into the City's waterbodies.

Source control strategies that decrease the amount of stormwater entering the wastewater treatment system are valuable tools to reduce the occurrence and volume of CSOs and other stormwater discharges. Effective source control strategies also provide other benefits, such as decreased energy consumption and economic benefits associated with supporting local markets for source control strategies. The Council finds that the development and implementation of a sustainable stormwater management plan is vital to improve water quality in the City and thereby better protect the public health through the restoration and protection of the ecological health of the City's waterbodies and to the enhanced use and enjoyment of the City's waterbodies for recreational activities.

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§ 3. This local law shall take effect immediately.

L.L. 2008/008

Enactment date: 3/13/2008

Int. No. 659-A

By Council Members Dilan, Filder, Gonzalez, Stewart and White (by request of the Mayor).

To amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to technical corrections of the New York city construction codes and repealing paragraph 4 of subdivision a of section 27-2004 of the administrative code of the city of New York, chapter 1 of the New York city plumbing code, sections 302.1.1, 302.1.1.1 302.2, 302.2, 302.2.1, 302.3, 302.3.1, 302.3.2, 302.4, 302.5, 904.11.4, 904.11.4.1, 1626.3 and BC 2902, of the New York city building code, tables 302, 403.1, 720.1 (2), 720.1(3), 721.2.3(2), 1507.2, 2305.3.3, 2306.3.2, 2306.4.5, 2308.12.4 and figures 1609.6.2.2 and 2308.12.6(1) of the New York city building code, section 510.8.2 and table 402.2 of the New York city fuel gas code.

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

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§ 211. Notwithstanding any other law or rule new tables, figures or equations in PDF format to be added to the New York city construction codes pursuant to this local law need not be underlined to denote new matter being added. The absence of underlining to denote new matter being added shall not affect the validity of new tables, figures or equations in PDF format to be added to the New York city construction codes pursuant to this local law, local law number 99 for the year 2005 or local law number 33 for the year 2007.

§ 212. This local law shall take effect on July 1, 2008. Prior to July 1, 2008 the commissioner of buildings shall take administrative actions necessary for the timely implementation of this local law, including but not limited to the promulgation of rules.

L.L. 2008/009

Enactment date: 3/13/2008

Int. No. 665-A

By Council Member Comrie, Rivera, the Speaker (Council Member Quinn), Brewer, Fidler, Gerson, James, Koppell, Palma, Recchia Jr., Seabrook, Stewart, Weprin, Arroyo, Vann, Mendez, Barron, Jackson, Mark-Viverito and White Jr. (by request of the Mayor)

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to green carts.

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

Section 1. Legislative findings. The Council finds that many New Yorkers suffer from health conditions related to poor nutrition, such as diabetes, heart disease, cancer and high blood pressure. Obesity rates in NYC have increased more than 70% since 1994. More than 1.1 million New Yorkers are obese, and another 2 million are overweight. Similarly, diabetes has more than doubled in NYC over the past 10 years. More than 500,000 adult New Yorkers have diagnosed diabetes and an additional 200,000 have diabetes and do not yet know it.

Poor nutrition, obesity, and diabetes are interconnected. According to one national study, eating fruits and vegetables three or more times a day as opposed to less than once a day is associated with a 42% lower risk of dying from stroke and 24% lower risk of dying from heart disease. Neighborhoods where fruit and vegetable consumption is the lowest have high rates of obesity and diabetes. In neighborhoods with the lowest fruit and vegetable consumption, such as East New York, Bushwick and Bedford-Stuyvesant, as many as one in four adults report that they did not eat a single fruit or vegetable the previous day. The availability of healthy food in the immediate neighborhood has a strong impact on the diet of its residents. In East Harlem, only 4% of small grocery stores sell leafy green vegetables and only 25% sell apples, oranges and bananas. With small grocery stores outnumbering supermarkets by almost three to one in such neighborhoods, residents of low-income neighborhoods have few healthy food options close to home. These findings demonstrate an urgent need to take measures that increase the accessibility of fruits and vegetables in neighborhoods where studies show that consumption of these items is low.

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§ 15. This local law shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall have become a law, provided that the commissioner of health and mental hygiene shall be authorized to take any steps necessary to prepare for implementation of the law, including the promulgation of rules, prior to such date.