File #: Int 0669-2007    Version: * Name: Requiring the placement of automated external defibrillators in public libraries.
Type: Introduction Status: Filed
Committee: Committee on Health
On agenda: 12/19/2007
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring the placement of automated external defibrillators in public libraries.
Sponsors: James S. Oddo, Vincent J. Gentile, Gale A. Brewer, Simcha Felder, Lewis A. Fidler, Helen D. Foster, James F. Gennaro, Alan J. Gerson, Letitia James, G. Oliver Koppell, John C. Liu, Michael C. Nelson, Helen Sears, James Vacca, David I. Weprin, Thomas White, Jr., Maria Del Carmen Arroyo, Robert Jackson, Rosie Mendez
Council Member Sponsors: 19

Int. No. 669

By Council Members Oddo, Gentile, Brewer, Felder, Fidler, Foster, Gennaro, Gerson, James, Koppell, Liu, Nelson, Sears, Vacca, Weprin, White Jr., Arroyo, Jackson and Mendez

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring the placement of automated external defibrillators in public libraries.

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

Section 1. Paragraph 3 of subdivision a of section 17-188 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended to read as follows:

                     3. "Public place" means the publicly accessible areas of the following places to which the public is invited or permitted: (i) public buildings maintained by the division of facilities management and construction of the department of citywide administrative services or any successor; (ii) parks under the jurisdiction of the department of parks and recreation identified pursuant to subdivision e of this section;  (iii) ferry terminals owned and operated by the city of New York served by ferry boats with a passenger capacity of one thousand or more persons; (iv)  nursing homes, as defined in section 2801 of the New York state public health law; (v) senior centers, which include facilities operated by the city of New York or operated by an entity that has contracted with the city to provide services to senior citizens on a regular basis, such as meals and other on-site activities; (vi) golf courses, stadia and arenas; [and] (vii) health clubs that are commercial  establishments offering instruction, training or assistance and/or facilities for the preservation, maintenance, encouragement or development of physical fitness or well-being that have a membership of at least two hundred and fifty  people,  and  which shall include, but not be limited to, health spas, health studios, gymnasiums, weight control studios, martial arts and self-defense schools or any other commercial establishment offering a similar course of physical training; and (viii) public libraries, established pursuant to section 255 of the New York state education law.

§2. This local law shall take effect one hundred twenty days after its enactment into law.

 

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