File #: Int 0058-2002    Version: * Name: Premises Discharge Sewer System, Penalties
Type: Introduction Status: Filed
Committee: Committee on Environmental Protection
On agenda: 2/27/2002
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to enforcement and penalties of premises discharging into the sewer system.
Sponsors: Michael C. Nelson, Madeline T. Provenzano, Helen Sears, Tony Avella, Lewis A. Fidler, Philip Reed, John C. Liu, Margarita Lopez, Yvette D. Clarke
Council Member Sponsors: 9
Attachments: 1. Committee Report, 2. Hearing Transcript
Date Ver.Prime SponsorAction ByActionResultAction DetailsMeeting DetailsMultimedia
12/31/2003*Michael C. Nelson City Council Filed (End of Session)  Action details Meeting details Not available
10/10/2002*Michael C. Nelson Committee on Environmental Protection Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
10/10/2002*Michael C. Nelson Committee on Environmental Protection Laid Over by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
2/27/2002*Michael C. Nelson City Council Referred to Comm by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
2/27/2002*Michael C. Nelson City Council Introduced by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available

Int. No. 58

By Council Members Nelson, Provenzano, Sears, Avella, Fidler, Reed, Liu and Lopez; also Council Member Clarke

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to enforcement and penalties of premises discharging into the sewer system.

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

                         

                         Section 1. Subdivision g of section 24-524 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended to read as follows:

                     g. In addition to the civil penalties set forth in subdivision f of this section, any person who knowingly violates or fails to comply with any provisions of sections 24-504 through 24-522 or section 24-523 of this chapter or any order, rule or regulation issued by the commissioner of environmental protection or environmental control board pursuant thereto or with the conditions of any permit issued pursuant thereto shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine of not less than [two hundred fifty] four hundred nor more than [one thousand] two thousand dollars, or by imprisonment not exceeding thirty days, and may also be punished by suspension or revocation of a license or permit issued for any food service establishment, as defined in paragraph 16 of subdivision a of section 24-523 of this chapter, that discharges into the sewer system, or [both] all for each violation. In the case of a continuing violation each day’s continuance shall be a separate and distinct offense.

                     §2. This local law shall take effect 60 days after it is enacted into law.