File #: Int 0057-2014    Version: * Name: Imposing fines for publicly accessible collection bins.
Type: Introduction Status: Filed (End of Session)
Committee: Committee on Sanitation and Solid Waste Management
On agenda: 2/26/2014
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to imposing fines for publicly accessible collection bins.
Sponsors: Daniel Dromm , Rosie Mendez, Annabel Palma, Deborah L. Rose, Paul A. Vallone, Vincent J. Gentile
Council Member Sponsors: 6
Int. No. 57
 
By Council Members Dromm, Mendez, Palma, Rose, Vallone and Gentile
 
 
A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to imposing fines for publicly accessible collection bins.  
 
 
Be it enacted by the Council as follows:
 
Section 1. Subdivision b of section 10-169 of Title 10 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new paragraph 5 to read as follows:
   5.  If the publicly accessible collection bin has not been removed within thirty days from the notice given by the department of sanitation as set forth in paragraph four of this subdivision or within thirty days from a denial of an objection by the owner pursuant to paragraph four of this subdivision, whichever is later, the owner of the bin or bins and the owner of the land where the bin or bins are located shall be liable for a civil penalty returnable to the environmental control board of not less than seventy five dollars nor more than one hundred fifty dollars for the first offense and not less than one hundred fifty dollars nor more than two hundred fifty dollars for the second and each subsequent offense within a twelve month period.
ยง 2.  This local law shall take effect ninety days after its enactment.
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