File #: Int 0422-2024    Version: Name: Requiring the commissioner of information technology and telecommunications to create a separate 311 category for rooftop activity complaints and to require the commissioner of buildings to report annually regarding certain rooftop spaces.
Type: Introduction Status: Enacted (Mayor's Desk for Signature)
Committee: Committee on Technology
On agenda: 2/28/2024
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring the commissioner of information technology and telecommunications to create a separate 311 category for rooftop activity complaints and to require the commissioner of buildings to report annually regarding certain rooftop spaces
Sponsors: Carlina Rivera , Gale A. Brewer, Farah N. Louis, Chris Banks, Oswald Feliz, Jennifer Gutiérrez, Lynn C. Schulman
Council Member Sponsors: 7
Summary: This bill would require the Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications (“DoITT”) to create a separate category for rooftop activity complaints on the 311 website and mobile app. The bill would further require the Department of Buildings to report annually on the number of City rooftops with recreational spaces indicated on a Certificate of Occupancy or indicated on a Place of Assembly Certificate of Operation.
Indexes: Report Required
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 422-A, 2. Summary of Int. No. 422, 3. Int. No. 422, 4. February 28, 2024 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 5. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 2-28-24, 6. Committee Report 4/25/24, 7. Hearing Testimony 4/25/24, 8. Hearing Transcript 4/25/24, 9. Minutes of the Stated Meeting - February 28, 2024, 10. Proposed Int. No. 422-A - 8/12/25, 11. Committee Report 8/14/25, 12. Int. No. 422-A - Fiscal Impact Statement - City Council, 13. Int. No. 422-A - Fiscal Impact Statement - OMB, 14. Committee Report - Stated Meeting, 15. August 14, 2025 - Stated Meeting Agenda
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Int. No. 422-A

 

By Council Members Rivera, Brewer, Louis, Banks, Feliz, Gutiérrez and Schulman

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring the commissioner of information technology and telecommunications to create a separate 311 category for rooftop activity complaints and to require the commissioner of buildings to report annually regarding certain rooftop spaces

 

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 23-313 to read as follows:

§ 23-313 Rooftop activity complaints. a. The department of information technology and telecommunications shall implement and maintain on its 311 citizen center website and mobile device platforms the capability for the public to file a complaint under the category of “rooftop activity complaint.” This complaint category shall contain subcategories for “rooftop occupancy without proper certificate or permit complaints” and “exceeding authorized rooftop occupancy complaints” in order that each such complaint may be referred to the appropriate agency to take action as necessary to address the complaint.

b. The department of information technology and telecommunications shall implement and maintain on its 311 citizen center website and mobile device platforms the capability for the public to file a noise complaint from rooftop activity under the category “noise” with the subcategory “rooftop activity.”

c. With respect to complaints filed pursuant to subdivisions a and b, the public shall have the ability to submit photographic evidence or recordings supporting such complaints.

§ 2. Article 103 of chapter 1 of title 28 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section § 28-103.38 to read as follows:

§ 28-103.38 Reporting regarding certain rooftop spaces. No later than March 31 of each year, the commissioner shall submit to the mayor and the speaker of the council and shall post on the department’s website a report on rooftop occupancy in the city. The report shall contain the following information for certificates of occupancy and place of assembly certificates of operation issued in the preceding year, disaggregated by community board:

1. The number of buildings with a roof deck, roof terrace, or other rooftop recreational space indicated on the certificate of occupancy for such building, and the building address;

2. The number of rooftops that have been issued a place of assembly certificate of operation, and the building address for each such rooftop; and

3. Any other information that the commissioner deems relevant.

§ 3. This local law takes effect 1 year after it becomes law.

 

Session 13

IB
LS #6119/6193

8/6/25 7:56 pm

 

Session 12

JB

LS #6119/6193

2/17/22 10:17am