File #: Int 0795-2000    Version: * Name: Circulation devices that exceed decibel level.
Type: Introduction Status: Filed
Committee: Committee on Environmental Protection
On agenda: 8/23/2000
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to prohibiting the operation of one or more circulation devices that create a sound level in excess of the permitted decibel level.
Sponsors: Kathryn E. Freed, Stanley E. Michels, Adolfo Carrion, Martin Malave-Dilan, June M. Eisland, Julia Harrison, (by request of the Mayor), Lloyd Henry, Margarita Lopez, Helen M. Marshall, Gifford Miller, Michael C. Nelson, Bill Perkins, Christine C. Quinn, Philip Reed, Jose Rivera, Angel Rodriguez, Lawrence A. Warden, Stephen J. Fiala, Martin J. Golden, James S. Oddo, Alphonse Stabile, Sheldon S. Leffler, Annette M. Robinson, Victor L. Robles, Ronnie M. Eldridge
Council Member Sponsors: 26
Date Ver.Prime SponsorAction ByActionResultAction DetailsMeeting DetailsMultimedia
12/31/2001*Kathryn E. Freed City Council Filed (End of Session)  Action details Meeting details Not available
8/23/2000*Kathryn E. Freed Legislative Documents Unit Printed Item Laid on Desk  Action details Meeting details Not available
8/23/2000*Kathryn E. Freed City Council Introduced by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
8/23/2000*Kathryn E. Freed City Council Referred to Comm by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
Int. No. 795
 
By Council Members Freed, Michels, Carrion, Malave-Dilan, Eisland and Harrison (by request of the Mayor); also Council Members Henry, Lopez, Marshall, Miller, Nelson, Perkins, Quinn, Reed, Rivera, Rodriguez, Warden, Fiala, Golden, Oddo, Stabile, Leffler, Robinson, Robles and Eldridge
 
 
A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to prohibiting the operation of one or more circulation devices that create a sound level in excess of the permitted decibel level.
 
 
Be it enacted by the Council as follows:
 
      Section 1.  Section 24-237 of the administrative code of  the city of New York is amended to read as follows:
      §24-237  Circulation devices.  No person shall operate or permit to be operated a circulation device or circulation devices, alone or in combination, in such a manner as to create a sound level in excess of 45 dB (A) when measured inside the dwelling unit affected in a line with the window nearest the exterior face of such circulation device or devices.  The measurement shall be taken with the window fully open at a point three feet from the open portion of the window.
      §2.  This local law shall take effect ninety days after it shall have become a law.