L.L. 1997/057

Enactment date: 7/14/1997

Int. No. 897-A

By Council Members Berman, O'Donovan, Eisland, Spigner, Pinkett, Marshall, Wooten and Stabile (by the request of the Mayor); also Council Members DeMarco, McCaffrey, Povman, Robles and Williams

A Local Law To amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to the regulation of shipboard gambling

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

Section 1. Legislative findings. The council hereby finds that city regulation of gambling "cruises to nowhere" that operate from locations within New York city is necessary to ensure public confidence and trust in such activities and to safeguard the security of the public who participate in them. Gambling activities are particularly susceptible to criminal activity and have historical associations with organized crime control. Like the legislatures in other jurisdictions, such as New Jersey and Nevada, which have acted to protect consumers from fraudulent practices and to prevent gambling from providing new opportunities for organized crime, the council finds that public confidence and trust can only be achieved and sustained by a regulatory system that ensures that such gambling operations will not be controlled or influenced by persons with criminal records and associations or associations with organized crime. The council therefore finds that it is necessary to require that businesses that operate gambling "cruises to nowhere" using vessels embarking from New York city, and their employees and suppliers, be licensed by the city and that the standards for the issuance of such licenses allow for the denial of licenses to entities and individuals unable to demonstrate that they possess good character, honesty and integrity. The council finds further that in order to provide for effective regulation to ensure the lawful operation of gambling on vessels operating from New York city, it is necessary to establish a gambling control commission that shall be responsible for the licensing and regulation of businesses that conduct shipboard gambling.

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[Consolidated provisions are not included in this Appendix A]

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§ 3. The provisions of this local Law shall be severable and if any phrase, clause, sentence, paragraph, subdivision or section of this local Law, or the applicability thereof to any person or circumstance, shall be held invalid by any court of competent jurisdiction, the remainder of this local Law and the application thereof shall not be affected thereby.

§ 4. The New York city gambling control commission is hereby authorized, immediately upon the effective date of this local law, to develop application and disclosure forms for the purposes of applications for licenses, certificates of approval and registrations pursuant to sections 20-954 and 20-955 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as added by section 2 of this local law, to establish fees for such applications and for background investigations, and to require the submission of such application and disclosure forms and fees within thirty days of having made such forms available by shipboard gambling businesses in operation as of such date, by persons employed as of such date by such businesses and, within sixty days, by vendors that would be subject to the provisions of sections 20-954 or 20-955 of the administrative code of the city of New York as added by section 2 of this local law. The commission shall, before the date on which application and disclosure forms are made available to vendors pursuant to this section, develop and make available a list of categories of vendors and/or amounts of sales of such goods or services that do not require obtaining a license as a key vendor or registration as an auxiliary vendor and may waive the requirement for a license or registration when, in its discretion, such license or registration is unnecessary to achieve the purposes of this local law. In addition, the chair of the commission may grant permission to a shipboard gambling business authorized to operate pursuant to section 5 of this local law to purchase goods or services on an expedited basis from an unlicensed or unregistered vendor when such purchase is necessary for the operation of such business. The commission shall, in addition, establish a procedure for the preliminary review of applications submitted by shipboard gambling business operating in New York city on or before one hundred and eighty days following the effective date of this local law and for provisional authorization for such businesses to operate following such preliminary review, pending completion of full review. At any time during or following such preliminary review that the commission finds reasonable cause to believe that an applicant lacks good character, honesty and integrity or that there are other reasons that may lead to the denial of a shipboard gambling license pursuant to section 20-956 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as added by section 2 of this local law, the commission may, in its sole discretion, refuse to issue a provisional authorization or revoke such an authorization. A provisional authorization to operate a shipboard gambling business granted by the commission pursuant to this section shall be deemed void upon the issuance or denial of an application for a shipboard gambling license.

§ 5. This local law shall take effect immediately, provided, however, that: (i) no enforcement of the requirement for a shipboard gambling license shall take place with respect to a shipboard gambling business operating on or before January 8, 1997 that has submitted completed application and disclosure forms and the fees established pursuant to section 4 of this local law to the New York city gambling control commission no later than thirty days following the date on which such forms have been made available by the commission and such application has not been denied; (ii) no enforcement of the requirement for a shipboard gambling license shall take place with respect to a shipboard gambling business operating in New York city on or before one hundred eighty days following the effective date of this local law that has submitted completed application and disclosure forms and the fees established pursuant to section 4 of this local law to the New York city gambling control commission and such application has not been denied, provided that such business has received a provisional authorization to operate from the New York city gambling control commission pursuant to section 4 of this local law and such provisional authorization has not been revoked or an application for a license been denied; (iii) no enforcement of the requirement for a key vendor license or a vendor registration shall take place with respect to a vendor furnishing goods or services to a shipboard gambling business described in (i) of this section where the vendor was furnishing goods or services prior to the effective date of this local law and such vendor has submitted completed application and disclosure forms and the fees established pursuant to section 4 of this local law to the New York city gambling control commission no later than sixty days following the date on which such forms have been made available by the commission pursuant to section 4 of this local law and such application has not been denied; provided that the commission shall make provision for temporary permission for a shipboard gambling business operating pursuant to this section to purchase goods or services from a vendor that has not provided goods or services to such business prior to the effective date of this local law provided that such vendor has submitted completed application and disclosure forms to the commission upon agreement to provide goods or services and such application has not been denied; (iv) no enforcement of the requirements set forth in subdivision 1 of section 20-963 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as added by section 2 of this local law shall take place with respect to a shipboard gambling business described in (i) of this section until ninety days following the date upon which applications and disclosure forms have been made available by the commission; (v) no enforcement of the requirement for a key vendor license or registration shall take place with respect to a vendor furnishing goods or services to a business described in (ii) of this section where such vendor has submitted completed application and disclosure forms to the commission by the time the provisional authorization has been issued to such business pursuant to section 4 of this local law and such application has not been denied; (vi) no enforcement of the requirement for a key employee license, a certificate of approval or an employee registration shall take place in regard to a person employed by a shipboard gambling business described in (i) of this section who has submitted the forms and the fees required by the commission no later than thirty days following the date on which such forms have been made available by the commission and such application has not been denied; (vii) no enforcement of the requirement for a key employee license, a certificate of approval or an employee registration shall take place in regard to a person employed by a shipboard gambling business described in (ii) of this section who has submitted the forms and the fees required by the commission no later than the date on which such business has been issued a provisional authorization by the commission and the application has not been denied; (viii) provided that the commission shall make provision for temporary permission for a shipboard gambling business operating pursuant to this section to employ persons who were not employed by such business prior to the effective date of this local law or at the time provisional authorization was issued to such business, provided that such persons have submitted completed application and disclosure forms and such application has not been denied.

L.L. 1997/058

Enactment date: 7/14/1997

Int. No. 931

By Council Members Stabile and Abel; also Council Members Ruiz, O'Donovan and Wooten

A Local Law in relation to a street name, Rocco T. Salierno Street, Borough of Queens

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

Section 1. The following street name is hereby designated as hereafter indicated.

 

New Name	Present Name	Limits
Rocco T. Salierno Street	Jamaica Street	between 76th Street and 77th Street

 

§ 2. This local law shall take effect immediately.

L.L. 1997/059

Enactment date: 7/14/1997

Int. No. 942

By Council Members Koslowitz, Foster, Linares and Robinson; also Council Members Povman and Abel

A Local Law in relation to a street name, William Cooper Walk, Borough of Queens and the repeal of local law number 52 for the year 1990.

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

Section 1. Local Law 52 for the year 1990 is hereby REPEALED.

§ 2. The following street name is hereby designated as hereafter indicated.

 

New Name	Present Name	Limits
William Cooper Walk	62nd Road	between the south side of Queens Boulevard and Saunders Street

 

§ 3. This local law shall take effect immediately.

L.L. 1997/060

Enactment date: 7/14/1997

Int. No. 946

By Council Member Marshall; also Council Member Abel

A Local Law in relation to a corner name, Manuel Mayi, Jr. Corner, Borough of Queens

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

Section 1. The following corner name is hereby designated as hereafter indicated.

 

New Name	Present Name	Limits
Manuel Mayi, Jr. Corner	(none)	the northeast corner at the intersection of 108th Street and 36th Avenue

 

§ 2. This local law shall take effect immediately.

L.L. 1997/061

Enactment date: 7/14/1997

Int. No. 947

By Council Members Sabini, Marshall, Foster, Fisher and Linares; also Council Members McCaffrey, O'Donovan and Abel

A Local Law in relation to a mall name, Patrick C. Deignan Mall, Borough of Queens

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

Section 1. The following mall name is hereby designated as hereafter indicated.

 

New Name	Present Name	Limits
Patrick C. Deignan Mall	none	a series of traffic islands commonly known as the 34th Avenue Mall located in the center of the street on 34th Avenue between 69th Street and Junction Boulevard

 

§ 2. This local law shall take effect immediately.

L.L. 1997/064

Enactment date: 8/14/1997

Int. No. 979-A

By Council Members Perez, Foster, Linares, Robinson, DeMarco, Eisland, Rivera and Warden (by the request of The Bronx Borough President); also Council Members Cruz, O'Donovan and Williams

A Local Law in relation to a street name, Bronx Walk of Fame Way, Borough of The Bronx

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

Section 1. The following street name is hereby designated as hereafter indicated.

 

New Name	Present Name	Limits
Bronx Walk of Fame Way	Grand Concourse	between East 150th Street and East 161st Street

 

§ 2. This local law shall take effect immediately.

L.L. 1997/065

Enactment date: 8/19/1997

Int. No. 959-A

By Council Member Spigner, the Speaker (Council Member Vallone), Marshall, Freed, Pagan, Sabini, Michels, Williams, Malave-Dilan, Linares, Perez, Ognibene, Abel and Stabile (at the request of the Mayor and the Queens Borough President); also Council Members Harrison, Koslowitz, Leffler, McCaffrey, Povman and Robles

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to improving enforcement measures against illegal apartment conversions

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

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§ 9. This local law shall take effect thirty days after it shall have been enacted into law and shall apply to violations committed on and after such date. The commissioner of buildings, the fire commissioner, the commissioner of consumer affairs and the environmental control board may promulgate any rules or take any other actions necessary for the timely implementation and enforcement of this local law.

L.L. 1997/069

Enactment date: 9/11/1997

Int. No. 958

By Council Members Spigner and Pagan (by the request of the Mayor) also Council Members Harrison and Robinson

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to tax lien foreclosure by action in rem

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

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[Consolidated provisions are not included in this Appendix A]

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§ 4. This local law shall take effect immediately and shall apply to every list of delinquent taxes prepared on or after the effective date of this local law.

L.L. 1997/071

Enactment date: 9/11/1997

Int. No. 1016-A

By Council Members Spigner, Pagan, Dear, Michels, Williams, Malave-Dilan, Linares, Fusco and Stabile (in conjunction with the Mayor); also Council Members Fisher, Harrison, O'Donovan and Perez

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to the installation of food waste disposals in residential buildings

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

Section I. Legislative findings. In 1995, local law number 74 was enacted, which provided for the limited installation of food waste disposals in dwellings served by combined sewer systems as part of a pilot study, the results of which were to be submitted to the mayor and the council no later than 21 months after the effective date of local law number 74. The findings were compiled in a June 1997 report prepared by the department of environmental protection entitled, "The Impact of Food Waste Disposers in Combined Sewer Areas of New York City." In short, the study found that the prohibition on the installation of food waste disposals in combined sewer areas should be lifted.

The study assessed the long-term impact of food waste disposals based on a maximum installation rate of one percent each year. The department of environmental protection has assured the council that it will supplement its ongoing monitoring of other factors that affect the City's treatment and disposal of wastewater by monitoring the introduction of food waste disposals to identify any problems that may materialize. In the unlikely event that problems do begin to surface, the department of environmental protection has further assured the council that it will immediately inform the council and recommend corrective action. With these assurances by the department of environmental protection, and in consideration of its own authority to oversee the implementation and effect of the installation of food waste disposals, the council finds, after review and analysis of the report, that at this time the prohibition of food waste disposals in combined sewer areas is no longer warranted.

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[Consolidated provisions are not included in this Appendix A]

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§ 4. This local law shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall have become law.

L.L. 1997/072

Enactment date: 9/11/1997

Int. No. 1032

By Council Members Miller, Berman, the Speaker (Council Member Vallone), Michels, Eldridge, Cruz, Dear, DeMarco, Dilan, Duane, Eisland, Fields, Fisher, Foster, Freed, Harrison, Henry, Koslowitz, Lasher, Leffler, Marshall, McCabe, McCaffrey, O'Donovan, Pagan, Perez, Pinkett, Povman, Powell IV, Rivera, Robles, Ruiz, Sabini, Spigner, Warden, Watkins, Weiner, White, Williams, Wooten, Abel, Eristoff, Fossella, Fusco, Stabile and Ognibene (in conjunction with the Mayor)

A Local Law to amend the charter of the city of New York, in relation to the payment of real property taxes

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

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[Consolidated provisions are not included in this Appendix A]

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§ 3. This local law shell take effect immediately and shall apply to installments of taxes on real property that become due and payable on or after July 1, 1998.