File #: Int 0123-2004    Version: * Name: Classifying the existence of a broken mailbox a class C immediately hazardous violation.
Type: Introduction Status: Filed
Committee: Committee on Housing and Buildings
On agenda: 2/4/2004
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to classifying the existence of a broken mailbox a class C immediately hazardous violation.
Sponsors: Bill Perkins, Christine C. Quinn, Philip Reed, Tony Avella, G. Oliver Koppell, Gale A. Brewer, Margarita Lopez, Alan J. Gerson, Miguel Martinez
Council Member Sponsors: 9

Int. No. 123

 

By Council Members Perkins, Quinn, Reed, Avella, Koppell, Brewer, Lopez, Gerson and Martinez

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to classifying the existence of a broken mailbox a class C immediately hazardous violation.

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

                     Section 1. Section 27-2047 of chapter 2 of title 27 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended to read as follows:

                     §27-2047  Mail service. The owner of a multiple dwelling shall either:

(1) Arrange for mail to be delivered to himself or herself, his or her agents, or employees for prompt distribution to the occupants; or

(2) Provide and maintain approved mail receptacles and directories of persons living in the dwelling, as provided by federal law and by the regulations of the post office department.  The existence of a broken mail receptacle shall constitute a class C immediately hazardous violation.

§2.  This local law shall take effect immediately after it is enacted into law.