File #: Int 0663-2005    Version: Name: Mandating community service for certain graffiti offenses.
Type: Introduction Status: Enacted
Committee: Committee on Public Safety
On agenda: 6/23/2005
Enactment date: 12/29/2005 Law number: 2005/127
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to community service for certain graffiti offenses.
Sponsors: Melinda R. Katz, Peter F. Vallone, Jr., James S. Oddo, Joseph P. Addabbo, Jr., Leroy G. Comrie, Jr., Lewis A. Fidler, Helen D. Foster, James F. Gennaro, Vincent J. Gentile, Letitia James, G. Oliver Koppell, John C. Liu, Michael E. McMahon, Hiram Monserrate, Michael C. Nelson, Kendall Stewart, Helen Sears, Sara M. Gonzalez, Dennis P. Gallagher, Robert Jackson, David I. Weprin, Betsy Gotbaum
Council Member Sponsors: 22
Attachments: 1. Committee Report, 2. Hearing Transcript, 3. Fiscal Impact Statement - A, 4. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 12/21/05, 5. Local Law
Date Ver.Prime SponsorAction ByActionResultAction DetailsMeeting DetailsMultimedia
12/30/2005AMelinda R. Katz City Council Recved from Mayor by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
12/29/2005AMelinda R. Katz Mayor Signed Into Law by Mayor  Action details Meeting details Not available
12/29/2005AMelinda R. Katz Mayor Hearing Held by Mayor  Action details Meeting details Not available
12/21/2005AMelinda R. Katz City Council Sent to Mayor by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
12/21/2005AMelinda R. Katz City Council Approved by CouncilPass Action details Meeting details Not available
12/12/2005*Melinda R. Katz Committee on Public Safety Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
12/12/2005*Melinda R. Katz Committee on Public Safety Amendment Proposed by Comm  Action details Meeting details Not available
12/12/2005*Melinda R. Katz Committee on Public Safety Amended by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
12/12/2005AMelinda R. Katz Committee on Public Safety Approved by CommitteePass Action details Meeting details Not available
6/23/2005*Melinda R. Katz City Council Referred to Comm by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
6/23/2005*Melinda R. Katz City Council Introduced by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available

Int. No. 663-A

 

By Council Members Katz, Vallone Jr., Oddo, Addabbo Jr., Comrie, Fidler, Foster, Gennaro, Gentile, James, Koppell, Liu, McMahon, Monserrate, Nelson, Stewart, Sears, Gonzalez, Gallagher, Jackson, Weprin and The Public Advocate (Ms. Gotbaum)

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to community service for certain graffiti offenses.

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1.  Subdivision f of section 10-117 of the administrative code of the city of New

York, as amended by local law number 5 for the year 2003, is amended to read as follows:

f.                     Any person who violates the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a class B misdemeanor punishable by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars or imprisonment of not more than three months, or both. Any person who has been previously convicted of violating the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a class A misdemeanor punishable by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars or imprisonment of not more than one year, or both. When a person is convicted of an offense defined in subdivision a or b of this section, or of an attempt to commit such offense, and the sentence imposed by the court for such conviction includes a sentence of probation or conditional discharge, the court shall, where appropriate, include as a condition of such sentence the defendant's successful participation in a graffiti removal program pursuant to paragraph (h) of subdivision two of section 65.10 of the penal law.

§2.                     This local law shall take effect immediately.

 

12/8/05