File #: Int 0897-2015    Version: * Name: Declaring nuisances related to the sale of synthetic drugs and imitation synthetic drugs.
Type: Introduction Status: Enacted
Committee: Committee on Public Safety
On agenda: 9/17/2015
Enactment date: 10/20/2015 Law number: 2015/096
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to declaring nuisances related to the sale of synthetic drugs and imitation synthetic drugs
Sponsors: Daniel R. Garodnick, Melissa Mark-Viverito, Maria Del Carmen Arroyo, Inez D. Barron, Vanessa L. Gibson, Corey D. Johnson, Peter A. Koo, Darlene Mealy, Rosie Mendez, Donovan J. Richards, Deborah L. Rose, Ruben Wills, Elizabeth S. Crowley, Andrew Cohen, Margaret S. Chin, Helen K. Rosenthal, David G. Greenfield, Ben Kallos, Jumaane D. Williams
Council Member Sponsors: 19
Summary: This bill would add violations of a proposed synthetic drug prohibition to the factors that allow the declaration of a public nuisance under the City’s Nuisance Abatement Law. It would allow a court, under the Nuisance Abatement Law, to issue restraining and closing orders against premises that repeatedly violate the proposed synthetic drug prohibition.
Attachments: 1. Legislative History Report, 2. Summary of Int. No. 897, 3. September 17, 2015 - Stated Meeting Agenda with Links to Files, 4. Committee Report 9/21/15, 5. Hearing Testimony 9/21/15, 6. Hearing Transcript 9/21/15, 7. Committee Report 9/25/15, 8. Hearing Transcript 9/25/15, 9. September 30, 2015 - Stated Meeting Agenda with Links to Files, 10. Fiscal Impact Statement, 11. Hearing Transcript of the Stated Meeting - September 30, 2015, 12. Mayor's Letter, 13. Minutes of the Stated Meeting - September 30, 2015, 14. Local Law 96
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9/21/2015*Daniel R. Garodnick Committee on Mental Health, Developmental Disability, Alcoholism, Substance Abuse and Disability Services Laid Over by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
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9/21/2015*Daniel R. Garodnick Committee on Consumer Affairs Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
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9/17/2015*Daniel R. Garodnick City Council Referred to Comm by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
9/17/2015*Daniel R. Garodnick City Council Introduced by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available

Int. No. 897

 

By Council Members Garodnick, the Speaker (Council Member Mark-Viverito), Arroyo, Barron, Gibson, Johnson, Koo, Mealy, Mendez, Richards, Rose, Wills, Crowley, Cohen, Chin, Rosenthal, Greenfield, Kallos and Williams

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to declaring nuisances related to the sale of synthetic drugs and imitation synthetic drugs

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

Section 1. Subdivision (g) of section 7-703 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as amended by local law number 8 for the year 2007, is amended to read as follows:

(g) Any building, erection or place, including one- or two-family dwellings, wherein, within the period of one year prior to the commencement of an action under this chapter, there have occurred three or more violations of one or any combination of the provisions of article two hundred twenty, two hundred twenty-one or two hundred twenty-five of the penal law, or section 10-203 of this code;

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

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