Int. No. 803-A
By Council Members Crowley, Oddo, Vacca, Lander, Cabrera, Dromm, Eugene, Ferreras, James, Koo, Koppell, Koslowitz, Levin, Palma, Rose, Williams, Wills, Weprin, Mendez, Mark-Viverito, Jackson, Rodriguez, Van Bramer, Gentile, Gennaro, Greenfield and Halloran
A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring the Department of Correction to make its electronic database of people buried at Hart's Island, since 1977, available on its website.
Be it enacted by the Council as follows:
Section 1. Chapter 1 of Title 9 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 9-132 to read as follows:
§ 9-132. Hart's Island electronic burial database. a. The department of correction shall post and maintain an electronic database of all burials on Hart's Island since nineteen hundred seventy-seven on the department's website, and shall not charge a fee to the public to search such database.
§2. This local law shall take effect thirty days after it shall have become a law.
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11/27/13