File #: Int 0868-2024    Version: * Name: Prohibiting the distribution of hypodermic syringes and needles by mobile syringe service programs within 450 feet of schools and playgrounds
Type: Introduction Status: Committee
Committee: Committee on Health
On agenda: 5/16/2024
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to prohibiting the distribution of hypodermic syringes and needles by mobile syringe service programs within 450 feet of schools and playgrounds.
Sponsors: Oswald Feliz, Linda Lee
Council Member Sponsors: 2
Summary: This bill would prohibit the distribution of hypodermic syringes and needles within 450 feet of schools and playgrounds. This applies to any individuals, organizations, or entities authorized by the Commissioner of the New York State Department of Health to distribute hypodermic syringes and needles out of a van, bus, or automobile.
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 868, 2. Int. No. 868, 3. May 16, 2024 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 4. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 5-16-24

Int. No. 868

 

By Council Members Feliz and Lee

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to prohibiting the distribution of hypodermic syringes and needles by mobile syringe service programs within 450 feet of schools and playgrounds.

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Section 17-180.1 of the administrative code of the city of New York, is amended by adding a new subdivision i to read as follows:

i. Prohibition on the distribution of hypodermic syringes and needles by mobile syringe service programs within 450 feet of schools or playgrounds. a. Definitions. For the purposes of this subdivision, the term “mobile syringe service program” means any person, organization, or entity authorized by the commissioner of the New York state department of health operating out of a van, bus, or automobile to distribute hypodermic syringes and needles.

b. No mobile syringe service program shall distribute hypodermic syringes and needles within 450 feet of any early education, elementary, middle, or high school or playground.

§ 2. This local law takes effect 120 days after it becomes law.

 

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