Int. No. 200-A
By Council Members Salamanca, Cabán, Won, Nurse, Abreu, Bottcher, Gennaro, Riley, Marte, Ayala, Rivera, De La Rosa, Menin, Farías, Brewer, Sanchez, Brannan, Brooks-Powers, Schulman, Gutiérrez, Hudson, Avilés, Krishnan, Narcisse, Hanif, Williams, Restler, Barron, Richardson Jordan, Louis and Dinowitz
A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to reporting on objections to orders for the abatement or remediation of lead conditions
Be it enacted by the Council as follows:
Section 1. Title 17 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 17-916 to read as follows:
§ 17-916 Report regarding objections to department orders. a. The department shall submit to the mayor and the speaker of the council, and make publicly available on the department’s website, a report on the number of objections to department orders for lead abatement or remediation received by the department pursuant to paragraph 3 of subdivision d of section 173.13 of the health code, or successor provision. Such report shall specify the number of such objections received from a housing development operated by the New York city housing authority. The department shall issue such report twice a year no later than August 30 for the period covering January through June of the same year, and no later than February 28 for the period covering July through December of the prior year.
b. The report required pursuant to subdivision a of this section shall include the number of orders withdrawn in full by the department, disaggregated by the reasons such orders were withdrawn, including, but not limited to:
1. Faulty paint sampling or testing by the department;
2. Inconclusive or contradicting test results; or
3. Exemptions due to the date a tested dwelling was erected.
§ 2. This local law takes effect immediately.
Session 12
HKA/CP
LS #1966
7/5/23 2:49 PM
Session 11
PLS
LS #9113
Int. #1461-2019