File #: Int 0587-2007    Version: * Name: Requiring the department of environmental protection to update billing information when real property is transferred.
Type: Introduction Status: Filed
Committee: Committee on Environmental Protection
On agenda: 6/5/2007
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring the department of environmental protection to update billing information when real property is transferred.
Sponsors: Simcha Felder, Gale A. Brewer, Lewis A. Fidler, Vincent J. Gentile, Sara M. Gonzalez, Robert Jackson, Letitia James, John C. Liu, Melissa Mark-Viverito, Darlene Mealy, Michael C. Nelson, Kendall Stewart, David I. Weprin, Alan J. Gerson
Council Member Sponsors: 14

Int.  No. 587

By Council Members Felder, Brewer, Fidler, Gentile, Gonzalez, Jackson, James, Liu, Mark-Viverito, Mealy, Nelson, Stewart, Weprin and Gerson

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring the department of environmental protection to update billing information when real property is transferred.

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1.  Subchapter 4 of chapter 3 of title 24 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 366 to read as follows:

§24-366.  Update of billing records for water and sewage charges.  a. Whenever a deed transferring the ownership of real property is recorded with the city register, the city register shall, within seven days, provide notice of such transfer to the department of environmental protection.  Such notice shall include the address of the property being transferred, the previous owner of record, the name of the new owner of record, and the principle address of the new owner of record if different from the property transferred.

b. The department of environmental protection shall, within seven days from receipt of such notice, update their billing records, and shall mail a customer registration form to the new owner’s principal address, or to the property transferred in the deed if no principal address is on record.

§2.  This local law shall take effect ninety days after its enactment into law.

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