Int. No. 1712-A
By Council Members Lancman, Menchaca and Rosenthal
A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring the mayor’s office of criminal justice to report on city agencies’ usage of criminal summonses
Be it enacted by the Council as follows:
Section 1. Section 9-301 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as added by local law number 127 for the year 2017, is amended to read as follows:
§ 9-301 Definitions. As used in this chapter, the following terms have the following meanings:
Charge. The term “charge” means the most serious offense charged or alleged in a criminal summons.
Criminal summons. The term “criminal summons” has the same meaning as that in section 14-101.
Offense. The term “offense” has the same meaning as that in section 10.00 of the penal law or any successor provision.
Office. The term "office" means the office of criminal justice as defined in section 13 of the charter or another office or agency designated by the mayor to implement the provisions of this chapter.
§ 2. Title 9 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 9-303 read as follows:
§ 9-303 Citywide summons report.
The office shall submit a biannual summary of summonses to the council and post such summary to the office’s website. This summary shall be submitted within 30 days of January 1 and July 1 of each year. This summary shall include but not be limited to the following information regarding criminal summonses issued during the previous six months:
a. The number of criminal summonses, in total and disaggregated by the number and percentage of such summonses issued by each city agency, and further disaggregated by the number and percentage of charges in the following categories: (a) felonies, (b) misdemeanors, and (c) violations or infractions.
b. The number and percentage of criminal summonses disaggregated by charge, and further disaggregated by agency.
c. The number and percentage of criminal summonses disaggregated by agency, and further disaggregated by charge.
§ 3. This local law takes effect 90 days after it becomes law.
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