File #: Int 0550-2007    Version: Name: Requiring that critical examinations of building facades for buildings greater than six stories in height take place on a five-year cycle starting from the year in which the building was erected.
Type: Introduction Status: Enacted
Committee: Committee on Housing and Buildings
On agenda: 3/28/2007
Enactment date: 8/2/2007 Law number: 2007/038
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to inspection cycles for exterior walls.
Sponsors: Daniel R. Garodnick, Gale A. Brewer, James F. Gennaro, Vincent J. Gentile, Sara M. Gonzalez, Robert Jackson, Letitia James, G. Oliver Koppell, Michael C. Nelson, Albert Vann, David I. Weprin, Thomas White, Jr., Larry B. Seabrook, Melissa Mark-Viverito, James Vacca, Miguel Martinez, Maria Del Carmen Arroyo, Inez E. Dickens, Jessica S. Lappin, Tony Avella, Alan J. Gerson, John C. Liu, Helen Sears, Dennis P. Gallagher, James S. Oddo
Council Member Sponsors: 25
Attachments: 1. Int. No. 550 - 3/28/07, 2. Committee Report 6/2/07, 3. Hearing Transcript 6/20/07, 4. Hearing Testimony 6/20/07, 5. Hearing Testimony 6/20/07 (Con't), 6. Committee Report 6/28/07, 7. Hearing Transcript 6/28/07, 8. Hearing Testimony 6/28/07, 9. Committee Report - Stated Meeting 7/25/07, 10. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 7/25/07, 11. Press Release, 12. Fiscal Impact Statement, 13. Local Law
Date Ver.Prime SponsorAction ByActionResultAction DetailsMeeting DetailsMultimedia
8/3/2007ADaniel R. Garodnick City Council Recved from Mayor by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
8/2/2007ADaniel R. Garodnick Mayor Signed Into Law by Mayor  Action details Meeting details Not available
8/2/2007ADaniel R. Garodnick Mayor Hearing Held by Mayor  Action details Meeting details Not available
7/25/2007ADaniel R. Garodnick City Council Sent to Mayor by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
7/25/2007ADaniel R. Garodnick City Council Approved by CouncilPass Action details Meeting details Not available
6/28/2007*Daniel R. Garodnick Committee on Housing and Buildings Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
6/28/2007*Daniel R. Garodnick Committee on Housing and Buildings Amendment Proposed by Comm  Action details Meeting details Not available
6/28/2007*Daniel R. Garodnick Committee on Housing and Buildings Amended by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
6/28/2007ADaniel R. Garodnick Committee on Housing and Buildings Approved by CommitteePass Action details Meeting details Not available
6/20/2007*Daniel R. Garodnick Committee on Housing and Buildings Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
6/20/2007*Daniel R. Garodnick Committee on Housing and Buildings Laid Over by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
3/28/2007*Daniel R. Garodnick City Council Referred to Comm by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
3/28/2007*Daniel R. Garodnick City Council Introduced by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
Int. No. 550-A
By Council Member Garodnick, Brewer, Gennaro, Gentile, Gonzalez, Jackson, James, Koppell, Nelson, Vann, Weprin, White Jr., Seabrook, Mark-Viverito, Vacca, Martinez, Arroyo, Dickens, Lappin, Avella, Gerson, Liu, Sears, Gallagher and Oddo
 
 
A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to inspection cycles for exterior walls.
 
Be it enacted by the Council as follows:
Section 1.  The first undesignated paragraph of subdivision a of section 27-129 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as amended by local law number 11 for the year 1998, is amended to read as follows:
A critical examination of an applicable building's exterior walls and appurtenances thereof shall be conducted at periodic intervals as set forth by rule of the commissioner, but such examination shall be conducted at least once every five years.  No later than January 1, 2009 the commissioner shall by rule establish staggered inspection cycles for buildings required to comply with this section.
      §2.  Section 28-302.2 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as added by a local law of the city of New York for the year 2007 amending the New York city charter and the administrative code of the city of New York relating to the enactment of the New York city construction codes as proposed in Int. No. 578-A, is amended to read as follows:
§28-302.2 Inspection requirements.  A critical examination of a building's exterior walls and appurtenances thereof shall be conducted at periodic intervals as set forth by rule of the commissioner, but such examination shall be conducted at least once every five years. No later than January 1, 2009 the commissioner shall by rule establish staggered inspection cycles for buildings required to comply with this section. The initial examination for a new building shall be conducted in the fifth year following the erection or installation of any exterior wall and/or appurtenances as evidenced by the issuance date of a temporary or final certificate of occupancy or as otherwise prescribed by rule.
            §3.   Section one of this local law shall take effect immediately, except that the amendment of subdivision a of section 27-129 of the administrative code pursuant to section 1 of this local law shall not affect the repeal of section 27-129 of the administrative code pursuant to section 7 of a local law of the city of New York for the year 2007 amending the New York city charter and the administrative code of the city of New York relating to the enactment of the New York city construction codes as proposed in Int. No. 578-A.  Section two of this local law shall take effect on July 1, 2008.
 
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Garodnick Façade Bill  6-25-07 4:00 PM