File #: Int 0498-2024    Version: Name: Requiring an application for community gardens to request collection of organic waste by the department of sanitation.
Type: Introduction Status: Enacted
Committee: Committee on Sanitation and Solid Waste Management
On agenda: 3/7/2024
Enactment date: 3/29/2025 Law number: 2025/030
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring an application for community gardens to request collection of organic waste by the department of sanitation
Sponsors: Shaun Abreu, Shahana K. Hanif, James F. Gennaro, Sandy Nurse, Kamillah Hanks, Sandra Ung, Christopher Marte, Lynn C. Schulman, Lincoln Restler, Diana I. Ayala, Shekar Krishnan, Tiffany Cabán, Alexa Avilés, Crystal Hudson, Farah N. Louis, Mercedes Narcisse, Chi A. Ossé, Julie Won, Chris Banks, Carlina Rivera , Eric Dinowitz, Darlene Mealy
Council Member Sponsors: 22
Summary: This bill would require the Department of Sanitation (DSNY) to make available on its website an online application allowing community gardens to request curbside collection of organic waste. DSNY would be required to collect organic waste from community gardens that request such collection beginning on August 15, 2025.
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 498-A, 2. Summary of Int. No. 498, 3. Int. No. 498, 4. March 7, 2024 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 5. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 3-7-24, 6. Minutes of the Stated Meeting - March 7, 2024, 7. Committee Report 11/20/24, 8. Hearing Testimony 11/20/24, 9. Hearing Transcript 11/20/24, 10. Proposed Int. No. 498-A - 2/25/25, 11. Fiscal Impact Statement - City Council, 12. Fiscal Impact Statement - OMB, 13. Committee Report 2/27/25, 14. Hearing Transcript 2/27/25, 15. Committee Report - Stated Meeting, 16. February 27, 2025 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 17. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 2-27-25
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Int. No. 498-A

 

By Council Members Abreu, Hanif, Gennaro, Nurse, Hanks, Ung, Marte, Schulman, Restler, Ayala, Krishnan, Cabán, Avilés, Hudson, Louis, Narcisse, Ossé, Won, Banks, Rivera, Dinowitz and Mealy

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring an application for community gardens to request collection of organic waste by the department of sanitation

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:Section 1. Subchapter 2 of chapter 3 of title 16 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 16-308.3 to read as follows:

§ 16-308.3 Community garden organics collection.

a. Definitions. For purposes of this section, the following terms have the following meanings:

Community garden. The term “community garden” has the same meaning as set forth in section 25-116.

Designated citywide languages. The term “designated citywide languages” has the same meaning as set forth in section 23-1101.

b. The department shall establish an online application for a person to request the collection of organic waste from a community garden by the department in accordance with this section. Such application shall be available: (i) on the department’s website; and (ii) in all designated citywide languages.

c. On and after August 15, 2025, the department shall provide for collection of organic waste from any community garden that has submitted an online application pursuant to this section. The department shall provide for such collection at a frequency that is no less than the frequency the department provides for collection of organic waste from residential properties pursuant to section 16-308.1.

§ 2. This local law takes effect June 15, 2025.

Session 13

MBB

LS #10224

02/19/2025, 10:14pm

 

Session 12

JW/JSA

LS #10224

11/3/2022