File #: Int 0830-2000    Version: * Name: Establishments with grease interceptors to dispose of grease properly.
Type: Introduction Status: Filed
Committee: Committee on Housing and Buildings
On agenda: 10/31/2000
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, to require that the owners of establishments with grease interceptors have contracts with authorized companies to maintain the devices and properly dispose of the grease.
Sponsors: John D. Sabini, Julia Harrison, Adolfo Carrion, Martin Malave-Dilan, Lloyd Henry, Karen Koslowitz, Margarita Lopez, Helen M. Marshall, Michael C. Nelson, Kathryn E. Freed, Stephen J. Fiala, Archie W. Spigner, Jerome X. O'Donovan
Council Member Sponsors: 13
Attachments: 1. Committee Report, 2. Hearing Transcript
Int. No. 830
 
By Council Members Sabini, Harrison, Carrion, Malave-Dilan, Henry, Koslowitz, Lopez, Marshall, Nelson, Freed and Fiala; also Council Members Spigner and O'Donovan
      
 
A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, to require that the owners of establishments with grease interceptors have contracts with authorized companies to maintain the devices and properly dispose of the grease.
 
 
Be it enacted by the Council as follows:
         
          Section 1. Subdivision d of section P105.4 of reference standard 16 of title 27 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new paragraph 6 to read as follows:
      (6) Maintenance of grease interceptors. The owner of any establishment required to have a grease interceptor pursuant to this section shall have a contract or other agreement for the maintenance of the device and disposal of grease and in accordance with such contract or agreement the maintenance of the device shall be performed or supervised by a licensed master plumber. The commissioner of environmental protection shall promulgate rules establishing the scope, frequency and nature of the maintenance of the interceptors and the method of grease disposal. The name, address and telephone number of such company shall be maintained at the premises, in a location readily accessible to employees of the city of New York.
      ยง2. This local law shall take effect one year after its enactment into law except that any rules authorized by this legislation may be promulgated prior to that date.
 
LS# 3102
AS/10-18-2000