File #: Int 0903-2001    Version: * Name: Asian Lunar New Year, suspend alternate side of the street parking.
Type: Introduction Status: Filed
Committee: Committee on Transportation
On agenda: 3/28/2001
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to the suspension of alternate side of the street parking rules on the Asian Lunar New Year.
Sponsors: Martin J. Golden, Lloyd Henry, Helen M. Marshall, Bill Perkins, Michael J. Abel, James S. Oddo, Adolfo Carrion, Pedro G. Espada, Wendell Foster, Karen Koslowitz, Sheldon S. Leffler, Walter L. McCaffrey, Michael C. Nelson, Annette M. Robinson, Angel Rodriguez, June M. Eisland, John D. Sabini
Council Member Sponsors: 17
Date Ver.Prime SponsorAction ByActionResultAction DetailsMeeting DetailsMultimedia
12/31/2001*Martin J. Golden City Council Filed (End of Session)  Action details Meeting details Not available
3/28/2001*Martin J. Golden Legislative Documents Unit Printed Item Laid on Desk  Action details Meeting details Not available
3/28/2001*Martin J. Golden City Council Referred to Comm by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
3/28/2001*Martin J. Golden City Council Introduced by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
Int. No. 903
 
By Council Members Golden, Henry, Marshall, Perkins, Abel and Oddo; also Council Members Carrion, Espada, Foster, Koslowitz, Leffler, McCaffrey, Nelson, Robinson, Rodriguez, Eisland and Sabini.
 
 
A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to the suspension of alternate side of the street parking rules on the Asian Lunar New Year.
 
 
Be it enacted by the Council as follows:
 
Section one. Section 19-163 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended to read as follows:
19-163 Holiday suspensions of parking [regulations] rules. a. All alternate side of the street parking [regulations] rules shall be suspended on the following [religious] holidays: Christmas, Yom Kippur, Rosh Hashanah, Holy Thursday, Good Friday, Ascension Thursday, Feast of the Assumption, Feast of All Saints, Feast of the Immaculate Conception, first two days of Succoth, Shimini Atzareth, Simchas Torah, Shevuoth, Orthodox Holy Thursday, Orthodox Good Friday, first two and last two days of Passover, the Muslim holidays of Eid Ul-Fitr and Eid Ul-Adha, Asian Lunar New Year, and all state and national holidays.
b. Each year, as soon as possible after the days of observance of the Muslim holidays of Eid Ul-Fitr and Eid Ul-Adha have been fixed pursuant to religious law and tradition, the commissioner shall designate the three days applicable to each of the aforementioned holidays as days upon which alternate side of the street parking [regulations] rules shall be suspended.
c. The date of the Asian Lunar New Year shall be the first day of the second lunar month after the winter solstice in the preceding calendar year.
ยง2. This local law shall take effect as soon as it is enacted into law.