Legislation Details

File #: Int 0115-2006    Version: * Name: Weekly Circulars, Plastic Bags
Type: Introduction Status: Filed
Committee: Committee on Sanitation and Solid Waste Management
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 the distribution of weekly circulars in a plastic bag to dwellings and to repeal subdivision five of section 16-118 of such code.
Sponsors: Simcha Felder, Vincent J. Gentile, Domenic M. Recchia, Jr.
Council Member Sponsors: 3

Int. No. 115

 

By Council Members Felder, Gentile and Recchia Jr.

 

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.

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

                     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  Subdivision 5 of Section 16-118 of administrative code of the city of New York is REPEALED and a new subdivision 5 is added to read as follows: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.

 

Int. 88/2004

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