Legislation Details

File #: Int 0180-1998    Version: * Name: Weekly Circulars, Plastic Bags
Type: Introduction Status: Filed
Committee: Committee on Environmental Protection
On agenda: 2/26/1998
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to the distribution of weekly circulars in a plastic bag to dwellings and to repeal subdivision five of section 16-118 of such code.
Sponsors: Sheldon S. Leffler, June M. Eisland, Karen Koslowitz, Lawrence A. Warden, Lucy Cruz, Julia Harrison, Walter L. McCaffrey, Annette M. Robinson
Council Member Sponsors: 8
Date Ver.Prime SponsorAction ByActionResultAction DetailsMeeting DetailsMultimedia
12/31/2001*Sheldon S. Leffler City Council Filed (End of Session)  Action details Meeting details Not available
3/17/1998*Sheldon S. Leffler Legislative Documents Unit Printed Item Laid on Desk  Action details Meeting details Not available
2/26/1998*Sheldon S. Leffler City Council Referred to Comm by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
2/26/1998*Sheldon S. Leffler City Council Introduced by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
Int. No. 180
 
 
By Council Members Leffler, Eisland, Koslowitz and Warden; also Council Members Cruz, Harrison, McCaffrey and Robinson.
 
 
A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to the distribution of weekly circulars in a plastic bag to dwellings and to repeal subdivision five of section 16-118 of such code.
 
 
         Section 1.  Subdivision 5 of Section 16-118 of administrative code of the city of New York is REPEALED and a new subdivision 5 is added to read as follows:
         5.a.  It shall be unlawful for any person to distribute or cause to be distributed to a dwelling without the permission of the property owner one or more weekly circulars contained in a plastic bag.  
          b.  The commissioner shall be authorized to collect a fee each time one or more weekly circulars are distributed or caused to be distributed to a dwelling in a plastic bag.
         ยง2.  This local law shall take effect immediately.      
 
         Referred to the Committee on Environmental Protection.
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