Int. No. 147
By Council Members McMahon, Weprin, DeBlasio, Yassky and Liu; also Council Member Koppell
A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to the distribution of weekly circulars in a plastic bag to dwellings and to repeal subdivision five of section 16-118 of such code.
Section 1. Subdivision 5 of Section 16-118 of administrative code of the city of New York is REPEALED and a new subdivision 5 is added to read as follows:
5.a. It shall be unlawful for any person to distribute or cause to be distributed to a dwelling without the permission of the property owner one or more weekly circulars contained in a plastic bag.
b. The commissioner shall be authorized to collect a fee each time one or more weekly circulars are distributed or caused to be distributed to a dwelling in a plastic bag.
§2. This local law shall take effect immediately.