File #: Int 0985-2009    Version: * Name: Time at which refuse and/or recyclable materials may be placed out for collection from residential buildings.
Type: Introduction Status: Filed
Committee: Committee on Sanitation and Solid Waste Management
On agenda: 5/6/2009
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to the time at which refuse and/or recyclable materials may be placed out for collection from residential buildings.
Sponsors: David I. Weprin, Leroy G. Comrie, Jr., Lewis A. Fidler, Letitia James, Domenic M. Recchia, Jr., Kendall Stewart, Michael C. Nelson
Council Member Sponsors: 7

Int. No. 985

 

By Council Members Weprin, Comrie, Fidler, James, Recchia Jr., Stewart and Nelson.

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to the time at which refuse and/or recyclable materials may be placed out for collection from residential buildings.

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

Section 1: Subdivision c of section 16-120 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended to read as follows:

c. Incinerator, residue, ashes, refuse and liquid waste shall be stored in the building or dwelling or at the rear of the building or dwelling as may be required by the department of health and mental hygiene or the department of housing preservation and development until time for removal and kept in tightly covered metal receptacles or containers made of other materials of a type and grade acceptable to the department of sanitation, department of health and mental hygiene, and the department of housing preservation and development.  Between the months of October and April, any person receiving Saturday residential refuse or recycling collection provided or approved by the department shall be permitted to place such refuse or recyclable materials out for collection beginning at 3 p.m. on the Friday immediately preceding the Saturday on which such collection is scheduled to take place.  After the contents have been removed by the department of sanitation or other collection agency any receptacles remaining shall be removed from the front of the building or dwelling before 9:00 p.m. on the day of collection, or if such collection occurs after 4:00 p.m., then before 9:00 a.m. on the day following collection. The receptacles shall at all times be kept covered or closed and kept in a manner satisfactory to the department of sanitation, the department of health, and in the case of residential premises, the department of housing preservation and development. No receptacles, refuse, incinerator residue or ashes, or liquid waste shall be kept so as to create a nuisance. Yard sweepings, hedge cuttings, grass, leaves, earth, stone or bricks shall not be mixed with household wastes.   

§2. This local law shall take effect immediately upon enactment.    

 

 

JH 4/19/09

LS# 7009