File #: Int 0674-2008    Version: Name: Requiring the city of New York to prune trees that block traffic signs or signals within three days of notification.
Type: Introduction Status: Enacted
Committee: Committee on Parks and Recreation
On agenda: 1/9/2008
Enactment date: 4/1/2008 Law number: 2008/012
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring the city of New York to prune trees, bushes and other vegetation that obstruct traffic control signals or devices.
Sponsors: Jessica S. Lappin, Leroy G. Comrie, Jr., Bill De Blasio, Inez E. Dickens, Simcha Felder, Lewis A. Fidler, Helen D. Foster, Vincent J. Gentile, Alan J. Gerson, Sara M. Gonzalez, Robert Jackson, Letitia James, G. Oliver Koppell, Melissa Mark-Viverito, Rosie Mendez, Michael C. Nelson, Annabel Palma, Domenic M. Recchia, Jr., Larry B. Seabrook, Helen Sears, Kendall Stewart, James Vacca, David I. Weprin, Melinda R. Katz, John C. Liu, Maria Del Carmen Arroyo, Joseph P. Addabbo, Jr., Daniel R. Garodnick, James F. Gennaro, Mathieu Eugene, Thomas White, Jr., Vincent Ignizio, Dennis P. Gallagher
Council Member Sponsors: 33
Attachments: 1. Int. No. 674 - 1/9/08, 2. Dear Colleague Letter, 3. Committee Report 2/11/08, 4. Hearing Transcript 2/11/08, 5. Hearing Testimony 2/11/08, 6. Committee Report 3/12/08, 7. Hearing Testimony 3/12/08, 8. Hearing Transcript 3/12/08, 9. Committee Report - Stated Meeting 3/12/08, 10. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 3/12/08, 11. Fiscal Impact Statement, 12. Press Release, 13. Letter from Mayor, 14. Local Law
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4/1/2008AJessica S. Lappin City Council Recved from Mayor by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
4/1/2008AJessica S. Lappin Mayor Signed Into Law by Mayor  Action details Meeting details Not available
4/1/2008AJessica S. Lappin Mayor Hearing Held by Mayor  Action details Meeting details Not available
3/12/2008AJessica S. Lappin City Council Sent to Mayor by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
3/12/2008AJessica S. Lappin City Council Approved by CouncilPass Action details Meeting details Not available
3/12/2008*Jessica S. Lappin Committee on Parks and Recreation Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
3/12/2008*Jessica S. Lappin Committee on Parks and Recreation Amendment Proposed by Comm  Action details Meeting details Not available
3/12/2008*Jessica S. Lappin Committee on Parks and Recreation Amended by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
3/12/2008AJessica S. Lappin Committee on Parks and Recreation Approved by CommitteePass Action details Meeting details Not available
2/11/2008*Jessica S. Lappin Committee on Parks and Recreation Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
2/11/2008*Jessica S. Lappin Committee on Parks and Recreation Laid Over by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
1/9/2008*Jessica S. Lappin City Council Referred to Comm by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
1/9/2008*Jessica S. Lappin City Council Introduced by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available

Int. No. 674-A

 

By Council Members Lappin, Comrie, de Blasio, Dickens, Felder, Fidler, Foster, Gentile, Gerson, Gonzalez, Jackson, James, Koppell, Mark-Viverito, Mendez, Nelson, Palma, Recchia Jr., Seabrook, Sears, Stewart, Vacca, Weprin, Katz, Liu, Arroyo, Addabbo Jr., Garodnick, Gennaro, Eugene, White Jr. and Gallagher

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring the city of New York to prune trees, bushes and other vegetation that obstruct traffic control signals or devices.

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

                     

Section 1. Title eighteen of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 18-105.1 to read as follows:

§18-105.1 Trees, bushes and other vegetation obstructing a traffic signal or device. a. Definitions. For purposes of this section, the following terms shall have the following meanings:

1. “Traffic control signal” shall mean any such signal as defined in section 154 of the vehicle and traffic law.

2. “Select traffic control device” shall mean any stop sign, yield sign or do not enter sign.

3. “Traffic control device” shall mean any traffic control device as defined in section 153 of the vehicle and traffic law, other than a select traffic control device.

b. The department shall inspect any location within four days of receiving notice that any traffic control signal, select traffic control device or traffic control device at such location is not visible or legible to a motorist who must obey or rely upon such sign due to an obstruction by a tree, bush or other vegetation or any portion thereof. 

c. The department shall within ten days of the inspection required pursuant to subdivision b of this section prune or cause to be pruned any tree, bush or other vegetation found to require pruning because it obstructs any select traffic control device or traffic control signal; provided that the department shall prioritize such pruning the department determines is most immediately needed to correct a hazard. 

d. The department shall within twenty days of the inspection required pursuant to subdivision b of this section prune or cause to be pruned any tree, bush or other vegetation found to require pruning because it obstructs any traffic control device.

e. The department shall maintain a log of all notices of the type described in subdivision b of this section.  Such log shall include the date and time such notice was received, the date and time on which such location was inspected, and the date and time when such tree, bush or other vegetation was pruned or the date and time of a determination that such tree, bush or other vegetation did not require pruning, as applicable. 

§2. This local law shall take effect thirty days after enactment.

LF 3/4/08 9:45 p.m.

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