File #: Int 1004-2024    Version: * Name: Providing information on wheelchair repair providers and related services.
Type: Introduction Status: Committee
Committee: Committee on Mental Health, Disabilities and Addiction
On agenda: 8/15/2024
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to providing information on wheelchair repair providers and related services
Sponsors: Mercedes Narcisse, Selvena N. Brooks-Powers, Tiffany Cabán, Justin L. Brannan, Kevin C. Riley
Council Member Sponsors: 5
Summary: This bill would require the Commissioner of the Mayor’s Office for People with Disabilities to create a website that provides information on wheelchair repair provider and services that help people find wheelchair repair providers. This bill would also require the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to post a link on its website and require the 311 Customer Service Center to provide the link in response to questions on how to locate wheelchair repair providers.
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 1004, 2. Int. No. 1004, 3. August 15, 2024 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 4. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 8-15-24

Int. No. 1004

 

By Council Members Narcisse, Brooks-Powers, Cabán, Brannan and Riley

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to providing information on wheelchair repair providers and related services

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Chapter 8 of title 23 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 23-807 to read as follows:

§ 23-807 Wheelchair repair providers and resources. a. Definitions. For purposes of this section, the following terms have the following meanings:

Commissioner. The term “commissioner” means the commissioner of the mayor’s office for people with disabilities.

Mayor's office for people with disabilities. The term “mayor’s office for people with disabilities” means the office established under executive order number 73 for the year 2021 or any successor office or agency that carries out the same or substantially similar functions. 

b. The commissioner shall create and maintain a website which lists (i) wheelchair repair providers that operate within the city and (ii) services available to help individuals locate wheelchair repair providers. Such website shall be operational no later than 6 months after the effective date of the local law that added this section and shall be updated at least every 6 months. Such website shall provide the following information for each provider and service, to the extent such information is applicable and available:

1. Name;

2. Address;

3. Email address;

4. Phone number; 

5. Website;

6. Hours of operation;

7. Insurance accepted; and

8. Forms of payment accepted.

c. The department of health and mental hygiene and shall post on its website a link to the website created pursuant to subdivision b.

d. The 311 customer service center shall provide, in response to each information request filed by the public regarding how to locate wheelchair repair providers, a link to the website created pursuant to subdivision b.

§ 2. This local law takes effect immediately.

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LS #16886/16887

7/19/2024 2:49 PM