File #: Int 0896-2001    Version: * Name: Police Dept to notify owner of stolen vehicle within 48 hours of its recovery.
Type: Introduction Status: Filed
Committee: Committee on Consumer Affairs
On agenda: 3/14/2001
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York to require the New York City police department to notify the owner of a stolen vehicle within forty-eight hours of its recovery.
Sponsors: Karen Koslowitz, Adolfo Carrion, June M. Eisland, Pedro G. Espada, Guillermo Linares, Margarita Lopez, Helen M. Marshall, Madeline T. Provenzano, John D. Sabini, Noach Dear, Kenneth K. Fisher, Julia Harrison, Stanley E. Michels, Jerome X. O'Donovan, Christine C. Quinn, Annette M. Robinson, Victor L. Robles, Angel Rodriguez, Michael C. Nelson, Michael J. Abel
Council Member Sponsors: 20
Attachments: 1. Committee Report 3/26, 2. Hearing Transcript 3/26, 3. Committee Report 6/27, 4. Hearing Transcript 6/27
Date Ver.Prime SponsorAction ByActionResultAction DetailsMeeting DetailsMultimedia
12/31/2001*Karen Koslowitz City Council Filed (End of Session)  Action details Meeting details Not available
6/27/2001*Karen Koslowitz Committee on Consumer Affairs Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
6/27/2001*Karen Koslowitz Committee on Consumer Affairs Laid Over by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
3/26/2001*Karen Koslowitz Committee on Consumer Affairs Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
3/26/2001*Karen Koslowitz Committee on Consumer Affairs Laid Over by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
3/14/2001*Karen Koslowitz Legislative Documents Unit Printed Item Laid on Desk  Action details Meeting details Not available
3/14/2001*Karen Koslowitz City Council Referred to Comm by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
3/14/2001*Karen Koslowitz City Council Introduced by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
Int. No. 896
 
By Council Members Koslowitz, Carrion, Eisland, Espada, Linares, Lopez, Marshall, Provenzano and Sabini; also Council Members Dear, Fisher, Harrison, Michels, O'Donovan, Quinn, Robinson, Robles, Rodriguez, Nelson and Abel
 
 
A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York to require the New York City police department to notify the owner of a stolen vehicle within forty-eight hours of its recovery.
 
 
Be it enacted by the Council as follows:
 
Section 1.  Title 14 of the administrative code of the city of New York is hereby amended by adding a new section 14-150, to read as follows:
      § 14-150 Vehicle owner notification. Within forty-eight hours subsequent to the recovery of any motor vehicle reported by its owner to be stolen, the police department shall notify the owner of the vehicle or any person authorized by the owner to have possession of the vehicle of the recovery and location of the vehicle.  
§ 2.  This local law shall take effect ninety days after it shall have become a law, provided that the police department may take any actions necessary prior to such effective date for the implementation of this local law including, but not limited to, the adoption of any necessary rules.