File #: Int 1732-2017    Version: * Name: Requiring photographic documentation evidencing certain violations enforced by the dept of consumer affairs.
Type: Introduction Status: Filed (End of Session)
Committee: Committee on Consumer Affairs
On agenda: 10/17/2017
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring photographic documentation evidencing certain violations enforced by the department of consumer affairs
Sponsors: Rafael L. Espinal, Jr.
Council Member Sponsors: 1
Summary: The bill would require that the Department of Consumer Affairs submit photographic documentation when issuing a notice of violation for violations where the underlying condition is visual and capable of being captured by photograph. The department would be tasked with promulgating and publishing rules regarding which violations will be subject to the photograph requirement.
Indexes: Agency Rule-making Required
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 1732, 2. Int. No. 1732, 3. October 17, 2017 - Stated Meeting Agenda with Links to Files, 4. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 10-17-17
Date Ver.Prime SponsorAction ByActionResultAction DetailsMeeting DetailsMultimedia
12/31/2017*Rafael L. Espinal, Jr. City Council Filed (End of Session)  Action details Meeting details Not available
10/17/2017*Rafael L. Espinal, Jr. City Council Referred to Comm by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
10/17/2017*Rafael L. Espinal, Jr. City Council Introduced by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available

Int. No. 1732

 

By Council Member Espinal

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring photographic documentation evidencing certain violations enforced by the department of consumer affairs

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Title 20 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding Chapter 11 to read as follows:

Chapter 11.

Photographic Evidence of Violations

                     § 20-937 Photographic Evidence of Violations. a. All notices of violation issued by the department for a violation, which as determined by the commissioner by rule is viewable and capable of being captured by photograph, shall contain a photograph of the underlying condition resulting in the violation. 

b. The official record of any subsequent inspection of violations subject to the requirement established in subdivision a of this section and for which a violator was granted an opportunity to cure, must include a photograph confirming that such violation has been cured.

c. The department shall publish on its website a list of violations subject to the requirements of subdivision a of this section.  

§ 2.  This local law shall take effect 120 days after its enactment except that except that the commissioner may take such measures as are necessary for the implementation of this local law, including the promulgation of rules, prior to such date.

 

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