L.L. 2024/067

Enactment date: 6/22/2024

Int. No. 97-C

By Council Members Ung, Louis, Avilés, Krishnan, Rivera, Williams, Riley, Won and Paladino

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to increasing the civil penalty for repeated littering violations

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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§ 2. The commissioner of sanitation shall design and implement a program to inform owners or managers of commercial, manufacturing, or industrial buildings, including any mixed-use buildings and those buildings which also contain residential units, but excluding any solely residential buildings, of the sidewalk and street cleanliness requirements and the related current and forthcoming penalties set forth in subdivision 9 of section 16-118 of the administrative code of the city of New York. Pursuant to such program, the commissioner of sanitation shall produce educational materials related to sidewalk and street cleanliness requirements, and the new penalties for failure to comply with such requirements. Such educational materials shall be available in the designated citywide languages as defined in section 23-1101 of the administrative code of the city of New York. The commissioner of sanitation shall implement such program no later than 120 days after the effective date of this local law and shall conduct such program for no less than 240 days thereafter.

§ 3. This local law takes effect immediately, except that section 1 of this local law takes effect 180 days after it becomes law.