File #: Int 0165-2002    Version: * Name: Providing an analysis of the effect of the WTC attacks on public health.
Type: Introduction Status: Filed
Committee: Committee on Health
On agenda: 4/24/2002
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to providing an analysis of the effect of the World Trade Center attacks on public health.
Sponsors: Alan J. Gerson, Tony Avella, Leroy G. Comrie, Jr., G. Oliver Koppell, Miguel Martinez, Michael C. Nelson, Jose M. Serrano, Albert Vann, David I. Weprin, Yvette D. Clarke, Christine C. Quinn, Robert Jackson
Council Member Sponsors: 12

Int. No. 165

 

By Council Members Gerson, Avella, Comrie, Koppell, Martinez, Nelson, Serrano, Vann and Weprin; also Council Members Clarke, Quinn and Jackson

 

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to providing an analysis of the effect of the World Trade Center attacks on public health.

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1.  Title 17 of the administrative code of the city of New York is hereby amended by adding a new section 17-112.1 to read as follows:

17-112.1 Monitoring the effect of the World Trade Center attacks on the health of Lower Manhattan residents, workers and schoolchildren. Commencing six months after the effective date of this section and every six months thereafter, the department shall submit to the mayor and the city council a report summarizing the effect of the attacks on the World Trade Center, which occurred on September 11, 2001, on the health of individuals who reside, work or attend school south of 14th Street.  The report shall include but not be limited to the effect on cardiopulmonary, respiratory and auto-immune health and the presence of any clusters of health conditions related thereto.

§ 2.  This local law shall take effect immediately.