Legislation Details

File #: Int 0918-2026    Version: * Name: Paying sidewalk and roadway cafe revocable consent fees in quarterly installments.
Type: Introduction Status: Committee
Committee: Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
On agenda: 5/20/2026
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to paying sidewalk and roadway cafe revocable consent fees in quarterly installments
Sponsors: Shanel Thomas-Henry , Farah N. Louis, Oswald J. Feliz, Frank Morano
Council Member Sponsors: 4
Summary: This bill would allow sidewalk and roadway cafe operators to pay their annual revocable consent fees in quarterly installments to reduce their upfront costs.
Indexes: Agency Rule-making Required
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 918, 2. Int. No. 918

Int. No. 918

 

By Council Members Thomas-Henry, Louis, Feliz and Morano

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to paying sidewalk and roadway cafe revocable consent fees in quarterly installments

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Subdivision c of section 19-160.1 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as added by local law number 121 for the year 2023, is amended to read as follows:

c. A revocable consent for a roadway cafe shall provide for compensation to be paid annually, with the option to pay such compensation in quarterly installments, to the city during the continuance of the consent. Such annual compensation shall be equivalent to the product of the fee rate and the square footage of a roadway cafe. There shall be 4 sectors, as described on the website of the department, provided that sectors 3 and 4 shall only include the area south of and including 125th Street in the borough of Manhattan and the fee rate for sector 1 shall apply to a minimum of 80 percent of the city. The fee rate for each sector shall be as follows:

Sector

Fee Rate

1

$5

2

$8

3

$14

4

$25

§ 2. Subdivision h of section 19-160.2 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as added by local law number 121 for the year 2023, is amended to read as follows:

h.  A revocable consent for a sidewalk cafe, or a consent to operate a sidewalk cafe located on a sidewalk widening, shall provide for compensation to be paid annually, with the option to pay such compensation in quarterly installments, to the city during the continuance of the consent. Compensation shall be equivalent to the product of the fee rate and the square footage of a sidewalk cafe. There shall be 4 sectors, as described on the website of the department, provided that sectors 3 and 4 shall only include the area south of and including 125th Street in the borough of Manhattan, and the fee rate for sector 1 shall apply to a minimum of 80 percent of the city. The fee rate for each sector shall be as follows:

Sector

Fee Rate

1

$6

2

$10

3

$18

4

$31

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

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