Int. No. 456-A
By Council Members Rosenthal, Mendez, Dromm, Constantinides, Kallos and the Public Advocate (Ms. James)
A Local Law to amend the New York city charter, in relation to requiring an annual analysis of, and recommendations based on, OATH tribunal dismissals.
Be it enacted by the Council as follows:
Section 1. Section 1048 of the New York city charter is amended by adding a new subdivision 6 to read as follows:
6. The office of administrative trials and hearings shall issue monthly reports relating to dismissals of civil penalty violations in tribunals within the jurisdiction of such office in the previous month. Such reports shall catalogue dismissals for each agency and shall include the reason for each dismissal. Such reports shall be sent to the speaker of the council, the public advocate, the mayor, and to each agency included in the reports.
§ 2. The mayor's office of operations shall work with agencies that receive reports from the office of administrative trials and hearings pursuant to section 1 of this local law to identify issues that may be causing civil penalty violations to be dismissed. The issues identified and any corrective action undertaken or to be undertaken by agencies to minimize the occurrence of dismissals of civil penalty violations shall be included in a report prepared by the office of operations. Such report shall be sent to the public advocate, the speaker of the council and the mayor on or before September 1, 2016.
§ 3. This local law takes effect 90 days after it becomes law and expires and is deemed repealed on December 31, 2018, except that section 2 of this local law expires and is deemed repealed on December 31, 2016.
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LS 1955/2014
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