Int. No. 218
By Council Members Spigner and White
A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York in relation to notice of material testing.
Be it enacted by the Council as follows:
Section 1. Paragraph a of section 27-131 of the administrative code of the city of New York is hereby amended by adding a new subdivision 3 to read as follows:
3. Publication. Within twenty days after the filing of the test report, the commissioner shall publish in the City Record in list form, by appropriate category, the material, briefly described as necessary, if such material is tentatively acceptable. Any person, upon a statement of cause, may request the commissioner that a material so listed not be permitted in use. At the expiration of twenty days after publication the material shall be acceptable and permitted in use. The commissioner shall strike, by publication, from the aforesaid published list any material found unacceptable and such material shall not be subsequently permitted in use. The commissioner shall periodically publish a complete list of material acceptable for use. Notwithstanding the above, the commissioner may, in his or her discretion, after the filing of the aforesaid test report, permit the immediate use of any and all of the listed material, pending the acceptance of said material for general use.
§2. This local law shall take effect immediately.
Referred to the Committee on Housing and Building.
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