File #: Int 0041-2006    Version: * Name: Notification to community boards and council members of applications for issuance of alteration permits for cellular telephone antennas and equipment.
Type: Introduction Status: Filed
Committee: Committee on Housing and Buildings
On agenda: 2/15/2006
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring notification to community boards and council members of applications for issuance of alteration permits for cellular telephone antennas and equipment.
Sponsors: Lewis A. Fidler, Vincent J. Gentile, Letitia James, Rosie Mendez, Michael C. Nelson, Annabel Palma, Domenic M. Recchia, Jr., James Sanders, Jr., Peter F. Vallone, Jr., David I. Weprin, David Yassky, James S. Oddo
Council Member Sponsors: 12

Int. No. 41

 

By Council Members Fidler, Gentile, James, Mendez, Nelson, Palma, Recchia Jr., Sanders Jr., Vallone Jr., Weprin, Yassky and Oddo

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring notification to community boards and council members of applications for issuance of alteration permits for cellular telephone antennas and equipment.

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Section 27-191 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by lettering the existing section as subdivision a and adding a new subdivision b to read as follows:

b. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, where the department receives an application pursuant to section 27-162 of this code for issuance of an alteration permit for the erection or placement of an antenna used to provide cellular telephone or similar service or any structure related to such service, the department shall, within five business days of receipt of such application, notify in writing the community board and council member in whose district the property in question is located of the receipt of such application. Such community board and council member shall have forty-five days within which to make comments to the department on such application and no permit may be issued by the department during such comment period. 

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

 

Int. 392/2004

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