File #: Int 0566-2007    Version: * Name: Classifying a broken mailbox as an immediately hazardous violation.
Type: Introduction Status: Filed
Committee: Committee on Housing and Buildings
On agenda: 5/9/2007
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to classifying a broken mailbox as an immediately hazardous violation.
Sponsors: Helen D. Foster, G. Oliver Koppell, Michael C. Nelson, Melissa Mark-Viverito
Council Member Sponsors: 4

Int. No. 566

 

By Council Members Foster, Koppell, Nelson and Mark-Viverito

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to classifying a broken mailbox as an immediately hazardous violation.

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1.  Section 27-2047 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended to read as follows:

§27-2047  Mail service.  The owner of a multiple dwelling shall either:

(1) Arrange for mail to be delivered to himself or herself, his or her agents, or employees for prompt distribution to the occupants; or

(2) Provide and maintain mail receptacles and directories of persons living in the dwelling as provided by federal law and by the regulation of the [post office department] United States postal service.  The existence of a broken mail receptacle shall constitute an immediately hazardous violation.

§2.  This local law shall take effect immediately after its enactment.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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LS #2360 & 2849

04/16/07