File #: Int 1137-2023    Version: * Name: Weight limits for parking structures.
Type: Introduction Status: Filed (End of Session)
Committee: Committee on Housing and Buildings
On agenda: 8/3/2023
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to weight limits for parking structures
Sponsors: Selvena N. Brooks-Powers, Farah N. Louis, Shahana K. Hanif, Kevin C. Riley
Council Member Sponsors: 4
Summary: This bill would require owners of most parking garages to refuse to park any vehicle on a level of such garage when doing so would cause the collective weight of vehicles on that level to exceed its maximum permissible weight limit. Each such garage would be required to install a motor vehicle weigh station so that an entering vehicle could be weighed before determining if parking such vehicle is feasible. Moreover, commercially licensed parking garages would be required to display information regarding the maximum permissible weight limits on levels within such garages and to notify the public when no further vehicles may be parked without the weight limit on each level being exceeded.
Indexes: Agency Rule-making Required
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 1137, 2. Int. No. 1137, 3. August 3, 2023 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 4. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 8-3-23, 5. Minutes of the Stated Meeting - August 3, 2023
Date Ver.Prime SponsorAction ByActionResultAction DetailsMeeting DetailsMultimedia
12/31/2023*Selvena N. Brooks-Powers City Council Filed (End of Session)  Action details Meeting details Not available
8/3/2023*Selvena N. Brooks-Powers City Council Referred to Comm by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
8/3/2023*Selvena N. Brooks-Powers City Council Introduced by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available

Int. No. 1137

 

By Council Members Brooks-Powers, Louis, Hanif and Riley

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to weight limits for parking structures

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Subdivision b of section 20-324 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended to read as follows:

b. Each such licensee shall post conspicuously at the public entrance to the garage or parking lot a sign composed of letters and figures of such size, height, width, spacing, color and description as shall be prescribed by the rules and regulations of the commissioner. Such sign shall set forth the schedule of rates charged, the hours during which such garage or parking lot will remain open for business, [and] the maximum capacity by number of motor vehicles of such garage or parking lot, and, for any garage, the maximum permissible weight limit which may be permitted on each level of the garage, as determined according to section 28-323.10.

§ 2. Section 20-327 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended to read as follows:

a. No motor vehicle shall be accepted by a licensee for parking, or storage, in excess of the maximum capacity by number of motor vehicles of the garage or parking lot, as shown in the license. Whenever the maximum capacity by number of motor vehicles of a garage or parking lot has been reached, the licensee shall post, at the public entrance thereof, a sign, composed of letters of such size, height, width, spacing, color and description as shall be prescribed by the rules and regulations of the commissioner, stating that such maximum capacity by number has been reached.

b. A motor vehicle shall not be accepted by a licensee for parking, or storage, if no level within the parking garage is available on which parking or storing such vehicle would not exceed the maximum permissible weight limit for that level, as calculated according to section 28-323.10. Whenever no additional motor vehicles may be parked or stored on any level of a garage without the maximum permissible weight limit being exceeded on any such level, the licensee shall post, at the public entrance thereof, a sign, composed of letters of such size, height, width, spacing, color, and description as shall be prescribed by the rules and regulations of the commissioner, stating that the maximum capacity by weight has been reached.

c. Vehicles shall be stored or parked on the licensed premises in such manner as shall be prescribed by the rules and regulations of the commissioner, for the purpose of safeguarding persons and property and permitting adequate inspection of the premises.

§ 3. Article 323 of chapter 3 of title 28 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding new sections 28-323.10 and 28-323.10.1 to read as follows:

§ 28-323.10 Maximum permissible weight capacity. No motor vehicle shall be parked or stored on a level of a parking structure when such parking or storage would cause the collective weight of vehicles on that level to exceed the maximum permissible weight limit for that level, as calculated by an approved agency on behalf of the owner, according to Table 1607.1 of the New York city building code and any rules of the department applicable to such parking structure.

 

§ 28-323.10.1 Weight sensors in parking structures. Each parking structure owner shall install a motor vehicle scale or weigh station at each entrance to such parking structure, in accordance with technical specifications to be prescribed by the rules and regulations of the commissioner. To determine whether a motor vehicle may be parked or stored in accordance with section 28-323.10, each motor vehicle shall be weighed on the scale or weigh station before the parking structure owner or owner’s authorized agent may accept that motor vehicle for parking or storage.

 

§ 12. This local law takes effect one year after it becomes law.

 

SRB

LS #13636

7/11/2023