File #: Int 1305-2025    Version: * Name: Requiring city agencies to provide visual representations of fence installations and alterations on bridges.
Type: Introduction Status: Committee
Committee: Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
On agenda: 6/11/2025
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring city agencies to provide visual representations of fence installations and alterations on bridges
Sponsors: Kamillah Hanks, Farah N. Louis
Council Member Sponsors: 2
Summary: This bill would require that city agencies planning to install or alter a fence on any bridge provide a notification that includes a visual representation of the new or altered fence to local council members and community boards at least 5 days prior to beginning work.
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 1305, 2. Int. No.1305, 3. June 11, 2025 - Stated Meeting Agenda

Int. No. 1305

 

By Council Members Hanks and Louis

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring city agencies to provide visual representations of fence installations and alterations on bridges

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Subchapter 1 of chapter 1 of title 19 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 19-101.7 to read as follows:

§ 19-101.7 Notification of installation and alteration of fences on bridges. Any city agency which plans to undertake a project to (i) install a permanent fence on a bridge or (ii) make a permanent alteration to an existing fence on a bridge that would significantly change the structure of the fence shall notify the community board and council member representing the geographic area in which the bridge is located. Such notification shall include a visual representation of the fence after its installation or alteration and shall be provided at least 5 days prior to the commencement of the project; provided, however, that such notification need not be provided prior to the commencement of any project requiring immediate implementation to preserve public safety.

§ 2. This local law takes effect 180 days after it becomes law.

 

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LS #18260

05/08/2025