File #: Int 0643-2024    Version: Name: Plan to identify and facilitate the use of indoor facilities for basketball games.
Type: Introduction Status: Laid Over in Committee
Committee: Committee on Parks and Recreation
On agenda: 3/7/2024
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring the posting of information on the use of indoor basketball courts, and a study on improving access to indoor basketball courts
Sponsors: Kevin C. Riley, Jennifer Gutiérrez, Althea V. Stevens, Julie Won, Oswald Feliz, Yusef Salaam, Gale A. Brewer, Shahana K. Hanif, Amanda Farías, Carmen N. De La Rosa, Lincoln Restler, Nantasha M. Williams, Lynn C. Schulman, Chi A. Ossé, Pierina Ana Sanchez, Julie Menin, Shekar Krishnan, Tiffany Cabán, Francisco P. Moya, Crystal Hudson, Mercedes Narcisse, Rita C. Joseph, Chris Banks, Farah N. Louis, Linda Lee, Robert F. Holden, Vickie Paladino, Joann Ariola , Inna Vernikov
Council Member Sponsors: 29
Summary: This bill would require that the Department of Parks and Recreation (DPR), with the Department of Education (DOE), post information on its website on how to access DOE indoor basketball courts when the weather does not allow for the use of outdoor basketball courts. The bill would also require DPR, with DOE to conduct a study on how to improve overall access to indoor basketball courts on days when the weather does not allow for the use of outdoor basketball courts. The study would evaluate how to improve the efficiency of the permitting process for indoor basketball courts and the feasibility of allowing members of the public to use DOE indoor basketball courts on days when the weather does not allow outdoor basketball courts use during times when school is not in session.
Indexes: Report Required
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 643-A, 2. Summary of Int. No. 643, 3. Int. No. 643, 4. March 7, 2024 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 5. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 3-7-24, 6. Minutes of the Stated Meeting - March 7, 2024, 7. Committee Report 4/23/25, 8. Hearing Testimony 4/23/25, 9. Hearing Transcript 4/23/25, 10. Proposed Int. No. 643-A - 6/23/25

Proposed Int. No. 643-A

 

By Council Members Riley, Gutiérrez, Stevens, Won, Feliz, Salaam, Brewer, Hanif, Farías, De La Rosa, Restler, Williams, Schulman, Ossé, Sanchez, Menin, Krishnan, Cabán, Moya, Hudson, Narcisse, Joseph, Banks, Louis, Lee, Holden, Paladino, Ariola and Vernikov

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring the posting of information on the use of indoor basketball courts, and a study on improving access to indoor basketball courts

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Title 18 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 18-168 to read as follows:

§ 18-168 Indoor basketball court access. a. Definitions. For purposes of this section, the following terms have the following meanings:

Basketball league. The term “basketball league” means a structured organization of basketball teams that has a permit approved by the department to reserve an outdoor basketball court in advance for a specified time and date.

Indoor basketball court. The term “indoor basketball court” means a basketball court under the jurisdiction of the department or the department of education that is located inside of a building or structure.

Outdoor basketball court. The term “outdoor basketball court” means a basketball court under the jurisdiction of the department that is located outside of a building or structure.

b. The department shall post on its website information regarding the use of indoor basketball courts, including, but not limited to, how to access, in accordance with department of education policy, indoor basketball courts under the jurisdiction of the department of education that may be used by basketball leagues on days when the weather does not allow for the use of outdoor basketball courts.

§ 2. The department of parks and recreation, in consultation with the department of education, shall conduct a study on how to improve access to indoor basketball courts, as defined in subdivision a of section 18-168 of the administrative code of the city of New York, on days when the weather does not allow for the use of outdoor basketball courts, as defined in subdivision a of section 18-168 of the administrative code of the city of New York. The department of parks and recreation shall post such study on the website of such department. Such study shall include, but need not be limited to:

1. An analysis of the permit application process for the use of such indoor basketball courts, including any recommendations to improve the efficiency of such process or to facilitate access to such indoor basketball courts; and

2. The feasibility of allowing members of the public to use such indoor basketball courts under the jurisdiction of the department of education on days when the weather does not allow for the use of such outdoor basketball courts and school is not in session.

§ 3. This local law takes effect 180 days after it becomes law.

Session 13

KS

LS #14068

6/20/25 12:33PM

 

Session 12

JEF

LS #14068

10/2/23 1:00 p.m.