File #: Int 0307-2006    Version: * Name: Cellular telephone service equipment and the inspection of the exterior walls of buildings greater than six stories in height.
Type: Introduction Status: Filed
Committee: Committee on Housing and Buildings
On agenda: 4/26/2006
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to cellular telephone service equipment and the inspection of the exterior walls of buildings greater than six stories in height.
Sponsors: Helen Sears, Peter F. Vallone, Jr., Lewis A. Fidler, Letitia James, Melissa Mark-Viverito, Domenic M. Recchia, Jr., David I. Weprin
Council Member Sponsors: 7

Int. No. 307

 

By Council Members Sears, Vallone Jr., Fidler, James, Mark-Viverito, Recchia Jr. and Weprin

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to cellular telephone service equipment and the inspection of the exterior walls of buildings greater than six stories in height.

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1.  Article 6 of subchapter one of chapter one of title 27 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 27-129.1 to read as follows:

§27-129.1 Exterior walls and appurtenances thereof, cellular telephone service apparatus.

(a)  Where a critical examination of an applicable building's exterior walls and appurtenances thereof cannot be conducted in whole or in part in accordance with section 27-129 due to the presence of any apparatus related to the provision of cellular telephone service, the owner of such property shall contact the department immediately in writing describing the nature of the circumstances for such inability and shall also indicate the building address, the cellular telephone service carrier or carriers whose equipment it is, and why such examination cannot be timely completed.

(b)  The owner of the property to which subdivision a applies shall immediately coordinate with the cellular telephone service carrier or carriers for the critical examination of such exterior walls and appurtenances thereof, which carrier or carriers shall allow the owner, or his or her representative, to conduct such examination promptly and such carrier or carriers shall, if necessary, shut-off such apparatus for such period of time as is necessary to permit a complete critical examination as is required by section 27-129 of this article.  Upon the completion of such critical examination, the apparatus related to the operation of cellular telephone service may resume unless such critical examination reveals that such exterior wall and appurtenances thereof are in need of immediate repair.

§2. This local law shall take effect immediately.

 

 

 

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