File #: Int 0713-2011    Version: * Name: Portable storage containers.
Type: Introduction Status: Filed
Committee: Committee on Housing and Buildings
On agenda: 11/3/2011
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to portable storage containers.
Sponsors: Mark S. Weprin, Sara M. Gonzalez
Council Member Sponsors: 2
Int. No. 713
By Council Members Weprin and Gonzalez
 
A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to portable storage containers.
 
 
Be it enacted by the Council as follows:
Section 1. Chapter one of title 28 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 28-505 to read as follows:
§28-505 Permit for portable storage containers. a. For the purposes of this section, "portable storage container" shall mean any weather resistant boxlike container transported by truck or trailer to a desired location and designed for the outdoor storage of personal property of household goods for temporary use only.  For the purposes of this section, dumpsters, the trailer portion of a tractor-trailer, or prefabricated sheds, shall not be considered a portable storage container.
b. No person shall place a portable storage container on residential property unless a permit for such container has been issued by the commissioner.  Such permit shall be for a period of no more than six months and may be renewed for one additional six-month period at the discretion of the commissioner.
§2. This local law shall take effect ninety days after its enactment.
 
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