Int. No. 612-A
By Council Members Gennaro, Brewer, Fidler, Gentile, Gerson, James, Koppell, Liu, Mark-Viverito, McMahon, Mealy, Monserrate, Nelson, Recchia Jr., Stewart, Gonzalez, Sanders Jr., Sears and The Public Advocate (Ms. Gotbaum)
A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to reporting on pesticide use by city agencies.
Be it enacted by the Council as follows:
Section 1. Subdivision b of Section 17-1208 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended to read as follows:
b. Effective February 1, 2007, and every February first thereafter, each city agency that is subject to the requirements of subdivision a of this section shall submit a report to the commissioner[ and the speaker of the council], in a form and manner prescribed by the commissioner, which shall contain the information required to be maintained pursuant to that subdivision for review and analysis. Effective May 1, 2008, and every May first thereafter, the commissioner shall submit a report to the speaker of the council that includes the information reported by each agency pursuant to this subdivision and a summary of such information. Such summary report shall include, but not be limited to, a summary, disaggregated by agency, of the number of times each pesticide was used, the total amount of each pesticide used and the Toxicity Category for each pesticide as determined by the United States environmental protection agency.
§2. This local law shall take effect immediately upon enactment.
AS
LS # 3317
10/5/07