File #: Int 0003-2024    Version: Name: Removal of derelict vehicles.
Type: Introduction Status: Enacted
Committee: Committee on Sanitation and Solid Waste Management
On agenda: 2/8/2024
Enactment date: 7/30/2025 Law number: 2025/094
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to removal of derelict vehicles
Sponsors: Shaun Abreu, Linda Lee, Nantasha M. Williams, Sandy Nurse, Selvena N. Brooks-Powers, Lincoln Restler, Althea V. Stevens, James F. Gennaro, Jennifer Gutiérrez, Crystal Hudson, Erik D. Bottcher, Sandra Ung, Susan Zhuang, Farah N. Louis, Gale A. Brewer, Alexa Avilés, Lynn C. Schulman, Rafael Salamanca, Jr., Amanda Farías, Mercedes Narcisse, Chris Banks, Tiffany Cabán, Eric Dinowitz, Carlina Rivera , Inna Vernikov, Vickie Paladino, Frank Morano
Council Member Sponsors: 27
Summary: This bill would specify that the Department of Sanitation (DSNY) is the agency responsible for the removal of any abandoned vehicle from a street, if such vehicle does not have license plates and has a wholesale value of $1250 or less.
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 3-A, 2. Summary of Int. No. 3, 3. Int. No. 3, 4. February 8, 2024 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 5. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 2-8-24, 6. Minutes of the Stated Meeting - February 8, 2024, 7. Committee Report 5/1/24, 8. Hearing Testimony 5/1/24, 9. Hearing Transcript 5/1/24, 10. Proposed Int. No. 3A - 6/24/25, 11. Committee Report 6/30/25, 12. Hearing Transcript 6/30/25, 13. Committee Report - Stated Meeting, 14. June 30, 2025 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 15. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 6-30-25, 16. Int. No. 3-A (FINAL), 17. Int No. 3-A - Fiscal Impact Statement - City Council, 18. Int No. 3-A - Fiscal Impact Statement - OMB, 19. Legislative Documents - Letter to the Mayor
Date Ver.Prime SponsorAction ByActionResultAction DetailsMeeting DetailsMultimedia
7/31/2025AShaun Abreu City Council Returned Unsigned by Mayor  Action details Meeting details Not available
7/30/2025AShaun Abreu Administration City Charter Rule Adopted  Action details Meeting details Not available
6/30/2025AShaun Abreu City Council Sent to Mayor by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
6/30/2025AShaun Abreu City Council Approved by CouncilPass Action details Meeting details Not available
6/30/2025*Shaun Abreu Committee on Sanitation and Solid Waste Management Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
6/30/2025*Shaun Abreu Committee on Sanitation and Solid Waste Management Amendment Proposed by Comm  Action details Meeting details Not available
6/30/2025*Shaun Abreu Committee on Sanitation and Solid Waste Management Amended by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
6/30/2025AShaun Abreu Committee on Sanitation and Solid Waste Management Approved by CommitteePass Action details Meeting details Not available
5/1/2024*Shaun Abreu Committee on Sanitation and Solid Waste Management Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
5/1/2024*Shaun Abreu Committee on Sanitation and Solid Waste Management Laid Over by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
2/8/2024*Shaun Abreu City Council Referred to Comm by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
2/8/2024*Shaun Abreu City Council Introduced by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available

Int. No. 3-A

 

By Council Members Abreu, Lee, Williams, Nurse, Brooks-Powers, Restler, Stevens, Gennaro, Gutiérrez, Hudson, Bottcher, Ung, Zhuang, Louis, Brewer, Avilés, Schulman, Salamanca, Farías, Narcisse, Cabán, Banks, Dinowitz, Rivera, Vernikov, Paladino and Morano

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to removal of derelict vehicles

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Subdivisions b and c of section 16-128 of the administrative code of the city of New York are amended to read as follows:

b. Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, the department shall be responsible for the removal of any abandoned vehicle described by subdivision 2 of section 1224 of the vehicle and traffic law from any street.

c. The [board of estimate shall set forth, in such regulations, the procedures to be followed by the] commissioner shall adopt rules relating to:

1. [the] The leasing of yards for storage of property removed under the authority of this section;

2. [notification] Notification to the owner of the property removed, if such owner is ascertainable, that the property is being held by the commissioner;

3. [redemption] Redemption, by the owner, of the property removed;

4. [reimbursement] Reimbursement, by the owner, of the expenses of removal incurred by the commissioner;

5. [the] The sale, by the commissioner, of the property held by [him or her] the commissioner;

6. [the] The keeping of records and accounts, the transmission of such records to the comptroller, and the transmission of funds collected to the commissioner of finance; and

7. [such] Such other [regulations] rules as the [board of estimate] commissioner may deem necessary to carry out the provisions of this section.

[c. Such regulations shall not become effective until adopted by the board of estimate and filed, by the secretary of such board, with the city clerk, pursuant to section eleven hundred five of the charter.]

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

 

 

 

 

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MBB

LS #8377

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