File #: Int 0905-2008    Version: * Name: Requiring the Fire Commissioner to maintain a Fire Communication Centers in every Borough.
Type: Introduction Status: Filed
Committee: Committee on Fire and Criminal Justice Services
On agenda: 12/18/2008
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the New York City Charter, in relation to requiring the Fire Commissioner to maintain a Fire Communication Centers in every Borough.
Sponsors: Michael E. McMahon, Alan J. Gerson, Letitia James, David I. Weprin, Kenneth C. Mitchell, Vincent J. Gentile, Kendall Stewart, Vincent Ignizio, James S. Oddo
Council Member Sponsors: 9
Date Ver.Prime SponsorAction ByActionResultAction DetailsMeeting DetailsMultimedia
12/31/2009*Michael E. McMahon City Council Filed (End of Session)  Action details Meeting details Not available
12/18/2008*Michael E. McMahon City Council Referred to Comm by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
12/18/2008*Michael E. McMahon City Council Introduced by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available

Int. No. 905

 

By Council Members Gerson, James, Weprin, Mitchell, Gentile, Stewart, Ignizio and Oddo

 

A Local Law to amend the New York City Charter, in relation to requiring the Fire Commissioner to maintain a Fire Communication Centers in every Borough.

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Subdivision e of section 487 of chapter 19 of the New York City Charter is amended, to read as follows:

e. The commissioner shall have the sole and exclusive power from time to time to designate and fix the location of all fire alarm telegraph, signal and alarm stations in the city, and shall have access to and control of the same for the purpose of the department. The commissioner shall maintain and operate a fire communication center in each borough that shall be the primary dispatch center for all fire and non-fire emergencies in that borough to which the Fire Department, including the Emergency Medical Service, is required to respond.

§2. This local law shall take effect immediately upon enactment.

LS # 5952

RC

12/10/08