Int. No. 766
By Council Members Dickens, Dromm, Ferreras, Garodnick, Gonzalez, Jackson, Koo, Koslowitz, Mendez and Williams
A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to license requirements for newsstands.
Be it enacted by the Council as follows:
Section 1. Subchapter 7 of chapter 2 of title 20 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 20-229.1 to read as follows:
§ 20-229.1 Notice. Within five business days of approving a newsstand license, the commissioner shall notify the affected community board and council member within whose respective district a newsstand shall be located.
§2. Subdivision a of section 20-231 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended to read as follows:
a. 1. No newsstand shall be within three feet of private property without the consent of the owner of that property.
2. No newsstand applying for a new license on or after March 1, 2012 shall be within twenty-five feet of any existing newsstand.
§3. This local law shall take effect immediately upon its enactment.
LS# 1247 and 1243
12/7/11
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