File #: Int 0176-2024    Version: * Name: The creation of a boilerplate annual checklist for parking garage inspections prior to initial annual condition inspections.
Type: Introduction Status: Laid Over in Committee
Committee: Committee on Housing and Buildings
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 the creation of a boilerplate annual checklist for parking garage inspections prior to initial annual condition inspections
Sponsors: Oswald Feliz, Christopher Marte, Sandy Nurse, Shaun Abreu, Gale A. Brewer, Shahana K. Hanif, Crystal Hudson, Farah N. Louis
Council Member Sponsors: 8
Summary: This bill would require the Department of Buildings to create and publish on their website a boilerplate annual observation checklist to be used by parking garage structure owners or their authorized agents prior to their initial annual condition inspection. This checklist would include, but would not be limited to, the age and location of the structure, whether vehicles are stored on the roof, and any outstanding violations for structural issues.
Indexes: Agency Rule-making Required
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 176, 2. Int. No. 176, 3. February 28, 2024 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 4. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 2-28-24, 5. Committee Report 4/25/24, 6. Hearing Testimony 4/25/24, 7. Hearing Transcript 4/25/24, 8. Minutes of the Stated Meeting - February 28, 2024

Int. No. 176

 

By Council Members Feliz, Marte, Nurse, Abreu, Brewer, Hanif, Hudson and Louis

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to the creation of a boilerplate annual checklist for parking garage inspections prior to initial annual condition inspections

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Section 28-323.2 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as added by local law number 126 for the year 2021, is amended by adding a new definition of “boilerplate annual observation checklist” in alphabetical order to read as follows:

 

BOILERPLATE ANNUAL OBSERVATION CHECKLIST. A document developed by the department and published on the department website containing essential baseline items to be inspected prior to the initial condition assessment by a parking structure owner. The baseline items shall include, but need not be limited to, the age and location of the structure, whether vehicles are stored on the roof, and whether there are any outstanding violations for structural issues.

 

§ 2. Article 323 of chapter 3 of title 28 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 28-323.4.1 to read as follows:

 

§ 28-323.4.1 Owner inspection prior to initial condition assessment. The owner or an owner’s authorized agent of any new or existing parking structure which is not scheduled to have an initial condition assessment before January 1, 2025 shall use the boilerplate annual observation checklist to inspect such parking structure within 1 year of the creation and publishing of the boilerplate annual checklist by the department.

 

§ 3. Section 28-323.7 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new item 3 to read as follows:

 

3. Whenever the owner or owner’s authorized agent observes an unsafe condition during an inspection conducted prior to the initial condition assessment pursuant to section 28-323.4.1, the owner shall notify the department immediately and undertake repairs in accordance with section 28-323.8.

 

§ 4. This local law takes effect 120 days after it becomes law.

 

 

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