File #: Int 0638-2011    Version: * Name: Permit fees for farmers markets in low-income neighborhoods.
Type: Introduction Status: Filed
Committee: Committee on Parks and Recreation
On agenda: 7/28/2011
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to permit fees for farmers markets in low-income neighborhoods.
Sponsors: Daniel R. Garodnick, Gale A. Brewer, Daniel Dromm , Julissa Ferreras-Copeland, Letitia James, G. Oliver Koppell, Karen Koslowitz, Brad S. Lander, Jumaane D. Williams, Melissa Mark-Viverito, Ydanis A. Rodriguez, Michael C. Nelson, Charles Barron, Stephen T. Levin, Annabel Palma, Sara M. Gonzalez, Robert Jackson, James G. Van Bramer, James Vacca, Ruben Wills
Council Member Sponsors: 20
Date Ver.Prime SponsorAction ByActionResultAction DetailsMeeting DetailsMultimedia
12/31/2013*Daniel R. Garodnick City Council Filed (End of Session)  Action details Meeting details Not available
7/28/2011*Daniel R. Garodnick City Council Introduced by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
7/28/2011*Daniel R. Garodnick City Council Referred to Comm by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
Int. No. 638
By Council Members Garodnick, Brewer, Dromm, Ferreras, James, Koppell, Koslowitz, Lander, Williams, Mark-Viverito, Rodriguez, Nelson, Barron, Levin, Palma, Gonzalez, Jackson, Van Bramer, Vacca and Wills.
 
 
A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to permit fees for farmers markets in low-income neighborhoods.
 
 
Be it enacted by the Council as follows:
 
Section 1. Chapter one of title 18 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 18-141 to read as follows:
§18-141 Permit fees for farmers markets.  A farmers market that participates in the New York state farmers market nutrition program, as administered by the New York state department of agriculture and markets, and is located in or adjacent to a community development block grant eligible neighborhood, as defined by the United States department of  housing and urban development, shall not be charged a daily permit fee for each day that such farmers market is in operation.
§2. This local law shall take effect ninety days after its enactment.
 
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