File #: Int 1029-2024    Version: * Name: Providing local community boards and elected officials with advance notice of planned street closures.
Type: Introduction Status: Committee
Committee: Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
On agenda: 9/12/2024
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to providing local community boards and elected officials with advance notice of planned street closures
Sponsors: Crystal Hudson, Kamillah Hanks, Kalman Yeger , Sandra Ung, Mercedes Narcisse, Shahana K. Hanif
Council Member Sponsors: 6
Summary: This bill would require, when any agency other than the Department of Transportation plans to close a street or issues a permit to close a street, the head of the agency to notify the Commissioner of Transportation of such planned street closure. This bill would also require the Commissioner of Transportation to provide 72 hours’ advance notice to community boards and certain elected officials of all planned street closures within their districts.
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 1029, 2. Int. No. 1029, 3. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 9-12-24, 4. September 12, 2024 - Stated Meeting Agenda

Int. No. 1029

 

By Council Members Hudson, Hanks, Yeger, Ung, Narcisse and Hanif

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to providing local community boards and elected officials with advance notice of planned street closures

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Subdivision a of section 19-107 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new paragraph (iii) to read as follows:

(iii) If the head of any agency other than the department plans to temporarily close or issues a permit to temporarily close to pedestrian or vehicular traffic any street, or a portion thereof, such agency head shall notify the commissioner of such planned closure. The commissioner shall make available to the community board and the council member, senator, and member of assembly in whose district such street is located information regarding any planned closure by the commissioner or any other agency head at least 72 hours prior to such closure or as soon as practicable after the commissioner receives notice of such planned closure.

§ 2. This local law takes effect 60 days after it becomes law.

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