File #: Int 1349-2025    Version: * Name: Exempting generators of regulated medical waste from commercial waste zones.
Type: Introduction Status: Committee
Committee: Committee on Sanitation and Solid Waste Management
On agenda: 8/14/2025
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to exempting generators of regulated medical waste from commercial waste zones
Sponsors: Eric Dinowitz, Mercedes Narcisse, Farah N. Louis
Council Member Sponsors: 3
Summary: This bill would exempt generators of regulated medical waste from being required to engage in commercial waste collection agreements with private waste carting companies serving the City’s commercial waste zones program.
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 1349, 2. Int. No. 1349, 3. August 14, 2025 - Stated Meeting Agenda

Int. No. 1349

 

By Council Members Dinowitz, Narcisse and Louis

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to exempting generators of regulated medical waste from commercial waste zones

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Paragraph 2 of subdivision a of section 16-116 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as amended by local law number 199 for the year 2019, is amended to read as follows:

    2. No later than the applicable final implementation date set forth in the rules of the department pursuant to subdivision e of section 16-1002, each owner, lessee or person in control of a commercial establishment shall contract with an awardee selected by the department for the zone in which such establishment is located for the removal of commercial waste only by a designated carter pursuant to the agreement entered into between such awardee and the department pursuant to title 16-B, [as such terms are defined in section 16-1000,] in accordance with the provisions of such title and any rules promulgated pursuant thereto, except as otherwise provided by such title, provided however, that an owner, lessee or person in control of a commercial establishment may contract for the removal of containerized commercial waste[, as such term is defined in section 16-1000,] with either an awardee selected for such zone or with an awardee selected for the removal of containerized commercial waste citywide pursuant to title 16-B, in accordance with the provisions of such title and any rules promulgated pursuant thereto. For purposes of this paragraph, the terms “awardee”, “commercial establishment”, “commercial waste”, “containerized commercial waste”, and “designated carter” have the same meanings as set forth in section 16-1000.

§ 2. Section 16-1000 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as added by local law number 199 for the year 2019, is amended by adding a new definition to read as follows:

Commercial establishment. The term “commercial establishment” means any commercial establishment other than a generator of regulated medical waste, as such term is defined in section 1389-aa of the public health law, section 27-1501 of the environmental conservation law, or section 16-120.1 of this code.

§ 3. Paragraphs 1 and 4 of subdivision b of section 16-1002 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as added by local law number 199 for the year 2019, are amended to read as follows:

1. The rate or rates to be charged to commercial establishments for such services, including the proposer’s commitment to providing lower rates for organics and recycling collection than for refuse collection services, the proposer’s plan for covering costs of third party waste audits, and any extra service fees or supplemental charges the proposer plans on including in the pricing structure, except that in the case of a proposal to provide for the collection, transport and removal of containerized commercial waste citywide, a description of the proposer’s commitment to providing lower rates for organics and recycling collection shall only be required where such proposal includes organics or recycling collection, transport and removal services;

4.   The proposer’s submission of a plan describing practices to support waste reduction, reuse and recycling among commercial establishments within the zone, such as partnerships with local organizations, waste reduction or diversion targets, plans for offering organics collection services to a broad range of commercial establishments within the zone, customer outreach and education or other practices to further such goals;

§ 4. This local law takes effect on January 30, 2034.

 

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05/12/2025