File #: Int 0857-2024    Version: Name: Towing vehicles that are an encumbrance on the street.
Type: Introduction Status: Committee
Committee: Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
On agenda: 4/18/2024
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to towing vehicles that are an encumbrance on the street
Sponsors: Rafael Salamanca, Jr., Selvena N. Brooks-Powers, Justin L. Brannan, Oswald Feliz, Diana I. Ayala, Farah N. Louis, Gale A. Brewer, Alexa Avilés, Darlene Mealy, Sandra Ung, Lincoln Restler, Amanda Farías, Crystal Hudson
Council Member Sponsors: 13
Summary: This bill would require that the Department of Sanitation remove certain vehicles that are an encumbrance on the street within 72 hours after receiving notice of the encumbrance.
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 857-A, 2. Summary of Int. No. 857, 3. Int. No. 857, 4. April 18, 2024 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 5. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 4-18-24, 6. Minutes of the Stated Meeting - April 18, 2024, 7. Proposed Int. No. 857-A - 2/27/25

 Proposed Int. No. 857-A

 

By Council Members Salamanca Jr., Brooks-Powers, Brannan, Feliz, Ayala, Louis, Brewer, Avilés, Mealy, Ung, Restler, Farías and Hudson

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to towing vehicles that are an encumbrance on the street

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Subdivision a of section 16-128 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended to read as follows:

§ 16-128 Removal of [incumbrances] encumbrances from streets. a. The commissioner shall remove, or cause to be removed any vehicle, box, barrel, bale of merchandise or other movable property or article or thing whatsoever found upon any street, in accordance with regulations adopted by the [board of estimate] commissioner. A vehicle shall be removed within 24 hours, where practicable, but not more than 72 hours after the department has received notice of such an encumbrance.

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

 

 

 

Session 13

LS #8879/12783/12791

2/25/25

 

Session 12

ARP/EH

LS #8879/12783/12791

6/6/23