File #: Int 0168-2022    Version: * Name: Reports of illegal towing to 311.
Type: Introduction Status: Filed (End of Session)
Committee: Committee on Technology
On agenda: 4/14/2022
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to reports of illegal towing to 311
Sponsors: Robert F. Holden, Kalman Yeger , Kevin C. Riley, Joann Ariola , Inna Vernikov
Council Member Sponsors: 5
Summary: This bill would require the Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications to create a new complaint function on the 311 website, telephone and mobile device platforms to report tow trucks illegally towing vehicles immobilized due to an accident. The bill would require this new 311 function to provide the ability to upload a photograph or video with the complaint.
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 168, 2. Int. No. 168, 3. April 14, 2022 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 4. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 4-14-22, 5. Minutes of the Stated Meeting - April 14, 2022

Int. No. 168

 

By Council Members Holden, Yeger, Riley, Ariola and Vernikov

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to reports of illegal towing to 311

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Chapter 3 of title 23 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 23-308 to read as follows:

§ 23-308 Complaints related to tow trucks. The department of information technology and telecommunications shall implement on its 311 citizen service center website, telephone and mobile device platforms the capability to file a complaint reporting a tow truck company that tows an immobilized vehicle in violation of paragraph 2 of subdivision b of section 20-518. Such option shall allow the complainant to include a photograph or video when submitting a complaint through such 311 website and mobile device platforms.

§ 2. This local law takes effect 120 days after it becomes law.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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