File #: Int 0044-2022    Version: * Name: Report on costs to repair sidewalks damaged by city-owned trees.
Type: Introduction Status: Filed (End of Session)
Committee: Committee on Parks and Recreation
On agenda: 2/24/2022
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to a report on costs to repair sidewalks damaged by city-owned trees
Sponsors: Joseph C. Borelli, David M. Carr, Kalman Yeger , Farah N. Louis, Robert F. Holden
Council Member Sponsors: 5
Summary: This bill would require the Department of Parks and Recreation, jointly with the Department of Transportation, to report to the Council on the annual costs borne by the City in repairing sidewalk flags that have been damaged by a City-owned tree.
Indexes: Report Required
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 44, 2. Int. No. 44, 3. February 24, 2022 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 4. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 2-24-22, 5. Minutes of the Stated Meeting - February 24, 2022
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Int. No. 44

By Council Members Borelli, Carr, Yeger, Louis and Holden

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to a report on costs to repair sidewalks damaged by city-owned trees

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

                     Section 1. Chapter 1 of title 18 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 18-151.1 to read as follows:

§ 18-151.1 Report on tree-related sidewalk repair costs. On or before December 1 of each year, the department, in conjunction with the department of transportation, shall submit to the mayor and council a report for the immediately preceding fiscal year on the costs incurred by the city to repair or replace sidewalk flags that were determined by the department to be damaged by a tree under the jurisdiction of the department. Such report shall include, but not be limited to, a description of the following:

a. The location of each sidewalk flag that was repaired or replaced, and the cost to perform such repair or replacement work, disaggregated by borough, council district and community district;

b. A description of the type of damage that was caused by each tree; and

c. A description of whether any work was performed on each tree or the roots of one or more trees that caused damage to a sidewalk flag, including whether such tree was removed or such roots were pruned.

§ 2. This local law takes effect 90 days after it becomes law.

 

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