File #: Int 1710-2017    Version: * Name: Backup of electronic information stored by city agencies.
Type: Introduction Status: Filed (End of Session)
Committee: Committee on Technology
On agenda: 9/27/2017
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to backup of electronic information stored by city agencies
Sponsors: Daniel Dromm
Council Member Sponsors: 1
Summary: This bill would require all city agencies to back up electronic information on external media and test the backup of such media regularly.
Indexes: Oversight
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 1710, 2. Int. No. 1710, 3. September 27, 2017 - Stated Meeting Agenda with Links to Files

Int. No. 1710

 

By Council Member Dromm

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to backup of electronic information stored by city agencies

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Title 10 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new Chapter 9 to read as follows:

CHAPTER 9

ELECTRONIC DATA BACKUP

§ 10-901 Backup of electronic information. Any agency that stores electronic information shall back up such information on an external storage device, a remote server over the internet, or on other storage media, with regular frequency. Electronic information stored on a physical or virtual server shall be regularly tested and restored.

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

 

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8/28/17 3:53 PM