File #: Int 0746-2008    Version: * Name: Requiring the electronic submission and sharing of plans.
Type: Introduction Status: Filed
Committee: Committee on Housing and Buildings
On agenda: 4/16/2008
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring the electronic submission and sharing of plans.
Sponsors: Alan J. Gerson, Leroy G. Comrie, Jr., Lewis A. Fidler, Vincent J. Gentile, Sara M. Gonzalez, Robert Jackson, Annabel Palma, Kendall Stewart
Council Member Sponsors: 8

Int. No. 746

 

By Council Members Gerson, Comrie, Fidler, Gentile, Gonzalez, Jackson, Palma and Stewart

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring the electronic submission and sharing of plans.

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

   Section 1. Section 27-141 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as added by local law 76 for the year 1968, is amended to read as follows:

                     §27-141  Plans. With  each application for approval of plans, there shall  be  submitted  such  number  of  copies  of  the  plans  as the commissioner  may  require including an electronic copy.  All plans shall comply in form and content with requirements of this code and other applicable laws and regulations.

                       §2. Section 27-144 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as amended by local law 76 for the year 1985, is amended to read as follows:

                       §27-144  Approval  of application and plans. Except as otherwise  provided in section 27-198 and section 27-198.1 of article  nineteen  of  this subchapter, applications and plans complying with the provisions of  this code and other applicable laws and regulations shall be approved by   the  commissioner, and the commissioner shall make an electronic copy of such approved plans accessible to the fire commissioner within one business day of such approval,  and  written  notice of  approval shall be given the applicant promptly and no later  than  forty  calendar  days  after  the  submission  thereof,  and  applications and plans failing to comply with  the provisions of this code and other applicable  laws  and  regulations  shall  be  rejected and written notice of rejection, stating the grounds of rejection, shall be given the applicant promptly and not  later  than forty  calendar  days  after  the  submission thereof, except that on or  before the fortieth day, the commissioner may on good cause  shown,  and upon  notification to the applicant, extend such times for an additional  twenty days. Whenever an application and accompanying  plans  have  been  rejected  and  are  thereafter  revised  and  resubmitted to meet stated grounds of  rejection, the revised  application  and  plans  shall  be approved  if  they  meet  the  stated  grounds of rejection, or shall be rejected if they fail to meet  the  stated  grounds  of  rejection;  and  written  notice of approval or written notice of rejection, stating the grounds of rejection, shall be given  the applicant  promptly  and  not later than twenty calendar days after the resubmission thereof.

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

LS # 3883

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