File #: Int 0831-2012    Version: * Name: Speed limits when passing vehicles engaged in the collection of waste.
Type: Introduction Status: Filed
Committee: Committee on Transportation
On agenda: 4/18/2012
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to speed limits when passing vehicles engaged in the collection of waste.
Sponsors: Elizabeth S. Crowley, Letitia James, G. Oliver Koppell, Annabel Palma, Deborah L. Rose, Ruben Wills, Ydanis A. Rodriguez, Sara M. Gonzalez, Brad S. Lander, Jessica S. Lappin, Maria Del Carmen Arroyo, Eric A. Ulrich
Council Member Sponsors: 12
Date Ver.Prime SponsorAction ByActionResultAction DetailsMeeting DetailsMultimedia
12/31/2013*Elizabeth S. Crowley City Council Filed (End of Session)  Action details Meeting details Not available
4/18/2012*Elizabeth S. Crowley City Council Introduced by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
4/18/2012*Elizabeth S. Crowley City Council Referred to Comm by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
Int. No. 831
 
By Council Members Crowley, James, Koppell, Palma, Rose, Wills, Rodriguez, Gonzalez, Lander, Lappin, Arroyo and Ulrich
 
 
A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to speed limits when passing vehicles engaged in the collection of waste.
 
 
Be it enacted by the Council as follows:
 
Section 1. Subchapter three of chapter one of title 19 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 19-187 to read as follows:
§19-187 Speed limit when passing vehicles collecting waste.  The driver of a motor vehicle, upon overtaking a vehicle engaged in the collection of waste and recyclables for the department of sanitation or a vehicle engaged in the collection of waste and recyclables for a private entity licensed pursuant to section 16-505 of the code, shall not exceed a speed of ten miles per hour.
§2. This local law shall take effect ninety days after its enactment.
 
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