File #: Int 0180-2010    Version: * Name: Requiring grocery stores over 5,000 square feet to provide an electrical plug for delivery food trucks.
Type: Introduction Status: Filed
Committee: Committee on Housing and Buildings
On agenda: 4/29/2010
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring grocery stores over 5,000 square feet to provide an electrical plug for delivery food trucks.
Sponsors: Gale A. Brewer, Lewis A. Fidler, Letitia James, G. Oliver Koppell, Brad S. Lander, Deborah L. Rose
Council Member Sponsors: 6
Int. No. 180
 
By Council Members Brewer, Fidler, James, Koppell, Lander and Rose
 
 
A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring grocery stores over 5,000 square feet to provide an electrical plug for delivery food trucks.
 
 
Be it enacted by the Council as follows:
Section 1.  Chapter 5 of title 28 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new article 505 to read as follows:
ARTICLE 505
GROCERY STORES
§28-505.1 Electrical Plug In Required for Delivery Food Trucks. a. Grocery stores whose square footage measures in excess of 5,000 square feet shall be required to provide an electrical plug for refrigerated delivery food trucks.  
b. Any person who violates this section shall receive a written warning for the first violation, and shall be liable for a civil penalty in the amount of two hundred dollars for a second violation within an eighteen month period and four hundred dollars for any subsequent violation within an eighteen month period.
§2. This local law shall take effect ninety days after its enactment into law, provided that the commissioner may promulgate any rules necessary for implementing and carrying out the provisions of this local law prior to its effective date.
 
CG/MA/TN/JW
LS # 7528
03/24/10