File #: Int 0811-2026    Version: * Name: Requiring the department of sanitation to clean and maintain all city-owned vacant lots.
Type: Introduction Status: Committee
Committee: Committee on Sanitation and Solid Waste Management
On agenda: 4/16/2026
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring the department of sanitation to clean and maintain all city-owned vacant lots
Sponsors: Selvena N. Brooks-Powers, Nantasha M. Williams, Shanel Thomas-Henry , Amanda C. Farías, Farah N. Louis, Harvey D. Epstein, Virginia Maloney , Lincoln Restler, Julie Won, Joann Ariola
Council Member Sponsors: 10
Summary: This bill would require that the Department of Sanitation be the sole agency responsible for cleaning and maintaining all City-owned vacant lots and the sidewalks abutting such lots, regardless of which City agency owns such vacant lot.
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 811, 2. Int. No. 811, 3. April 16, 2026 - Stated Meeting Agenda

Int. No. 811

 

By Council Members Brooks-Powers, Williams, Farías, Thomas-Henry, Louis, Epstein, Maloney, Restler, Won and Ariola

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring the department of sanitation to clean and maintain all city-owned vacant lots

 

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Subparagraph (b) of paragraph 2 of section 16-118 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new clause (1) to read as follows:

(1) For vacant lots owned by the city and for which the city regularly pays all or part of the annual bills, the department shall perform the requirements of subparagraph (b) of paragraph 2 of this section.

§ 2. This local law takes effect immediately.

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LS # 21458

03/23/2026