File #: Int 0418-2010    Version: * Name: Replacing all uncovered street litter baskets.
Type: Introduction Status: Filed
Committee: Committee on Sanitation and Solid Waste Management
On agenda: 11/17/2010
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to replacing all uncovered street litter baskets.
Sponsors: Karen Koslowitz, Daniel Dromm , Julissa Ferreras-Copeland, Lewis A. Fidler, Vincent J. Gentile, Letitia James, Annabel Palma, Ydanis A. Rodriguez, Deborah L. Rose, James G. Van Bramer, Jumaane D. Williams, Michael C. Nelson, Sara M. Gonzalez, Inez E. Dickens, Albert Vann, Brad S. Lander, Daniel R. Garodnick, Joel Rivera, G. Oliver Koppell, Melissa Mark-Viverito, David G. Greenfield, James Vacca, Peter F. Vallone, Jr., Daniel J. Halloran III
Council Member Sponsors: 24
Int. No. 418
 
By Council Members Koslowitz, Dromm, Ferreras, Fidler, Gentile, James, Palma, Rodriguez, Rose, Van Bramer, Williams, Nelson, Gonzalez, Dickens, Vann, Lander, Garodnick, Rivera, Koppell, Mark-Viverito, Greenfield, Vacca, Vallone and Halloran
 
 
A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to replacing all uncovered street litter baskets.  
 
 
Be it enacted by the Council as follows:      
Section 1. Chapter 1 of title 16 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 16-132.1 to read as follows:
16-132.1 Replacement of uncovered street litter baskets. Within ten years of the effective date of this section, the commissioner shall replace, or require the replacement of, all uncovered litter baskets, containers or receptacles placed in a publicly accessible location by the department or its authorized agent for the public disposal of litter, with baskets, containers or receptacles that are designed to prevent litter placed in such basket, container or receptacle from overflowing onto the public location where such basket, container or receptacle has been placed.
ยง 2.  This local law shall take effect immediately.  
JJH-LS 958
11/9/10