File #: Int 0888-2015    Version: * Name: Removal of inoperative or decommissioned fire hydrants.
Type: Introduction Status: Filed (End of Session)
Committee: Committee on Environmental Protection
On agenda: 9/17/2015
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to the removal of inoperative or decommissioned fire hydrants
Sponsors: Fernando Cabrera , Mathieu Eugene, Vincent J. Gentile, Peter A. Koo, Darlene Mealy, Rosie Mendez
Council Member Sponsors: 6
Summary: This bill would require the department of environmental protection to remove from public sidewalks any fire hydrant that has been inoperative for more than two years and for which no repairs are scheduled, as well as any fire hydrant that has been decommissioned with no planned reinstatement.
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 888, 2. September 17, 2015 - Stated Meeting Agenda with Links to Files

Int. No. 888

 

By Council Members Cabrera, Eugene, Gentile, Koo, Mealy and Mendez

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to the removal of inoperative or decommissioned fire hydrants

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

                     Section 1. Chapter three of title 24 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 24-307.1 to read as follows:

§ 24-307.1 Inoperative or decommissioned fire hydrants. The commissioner shall remove from public sidewalks all fire hydrants that have been inoperative for more than two years, and for which no repairs are scheduled, and all decommissioned fire hydrants, for which no reinstatement plan exists.

                     § 2. This local law takes effect 90 days after it becomes law.

 

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