File #: Int 1146-2023    Version: * Name: Prohibiting the use of plywood to secure vacant buildings.
Type: Introduction Status: Filed (End of Session)
Committee: Committee on Housing and Buildings
On agenda: 8/3/2023
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to prohibiting the use of plywood to secure vacant buildings
Sponsors: Robert F. Holden, Kevin C. Riley, Nantasha M. Williams, (by request of the Queens Borough President)
Council Member Sponsors: 3
Summary: This bill would require the owner of any vacant building that is not continuously guarded or not sealed and kept secure against unauthorized entry to seal building openings using a material other than plywood.
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 1146, 2. Int. No. 1146, 3. August 3, 2023 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 4. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 8-3-23, 5. Minutes of the Stated Meeting - August 3, 2023

Int. No. 1146

 

By Council Members Holden, Riley and Williams (by request of the Queens Borough President)

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to prohibiting the use of plywood to secure vacant buildings

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Section 28-216.1.2 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as amended by local law number 126 for the year 2021, is amended to read as follows:

§ 28-216.1.2. Vacant buildings. Any vacant building not continuously guarded or not sealed and kept secure against unauthorized entry shall have all openings sealed in a manner approved by the commissioner, [and it] but the use of plywood shall be prohibited in sealing such openings. It shall be the duty of the owner thereof promptly to make any repairs that may be necessary for the purpose of keeping such building sealed and secure.

§ 2. This local law takes effect 60 days after it becomes law.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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