File #: Int 0729-2005    Version: * Name: Maintaining a registry of people who may need to be evacuated in the event of a citywide emergency
Type: Introduction Status: Filed
Committee: Committee on Public Safety
On agenda: 9/28/2005
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the New York city charter, in relation to maintaining a registry of people who may need to be evacuated in the event of a citywide emergency
Sponsors: David Yassky, Robert Jackson, Albert Vann, Joseph P. Addabbo, Jr., Charles Barron, Gale A. Brewer, Yvette D. Clarke, Vincent J. Gentile, Alan J. Gerson, Letitia James, G. Oliver Koppell, Michael E. McMahon, Hiram Monserrate, Michael C. Nelson, Domenic M. Recchia, Jr., James Sanders, Jr., Larry B. Seabrook, David I. Weprin, Betsy Gotbaum
Council Member Sponsors: 19

Int. No. 729

 

By Council Members Yassky, Jackson, Vann, Addabbo Jr., Barron, Brewer, Clarke, Gentile, Gerson, James, Koppell, McMahon, Monserrate, Nelson, Recchia Jr., Sanders Jr., Seabrook, Weprin and The Public Advocate (Ms. Gotbaum)

 

A Local Law to amend the New York city charter, in relation to maintaining a registry of people who may need to be evacuated in the event of a citywide emergency

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Section 497 of the New York city charter is amended by renumbering existing subdivisions n and o as subdivisions o and p, respectively, and adding a new subdivision n to read as follows:

n. develop and maintain a registry of people who may need to be evacuated in the event of a citywide emergency, and a plan for conducting such an evacuation;

[n]o. perform all other functions previously performed by the former office of emergency management and the emergency control board; and

[o]p. promulgate such rules and regulations as may be necessary to implement the provisions of this chapter.

§2. This local law shall take effect 90 days after its enactment into law; provided, however, the commissioner shall implement subdivision n of section 497 of the charter, as added by section one of this local law, within one year of such effective date.

 

RBU

LS # 3448

09/23/2005