File #: Int 0147-2002    Version: * Name: Weekly Circulars, Plastic Bags
Type: Introduction Status: Filed
Committee: Committee on Sanitation and Solid Waste Management
On agenda: 4/10/2002
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to the distribution of weekly circulars in a plastic bag to dwellings and to repeal subdivision five of section 16-118 of such code.
Sponsors: Michael E. McMahon, David I. Weprin, Bill De Blasio, Alan J. Gerson, David Yassky, John C. Liu, G. Oliver Koppell
Council Member Sponsors: 7
Date Ver.Prime SponsorAction ByActionResultAction DetailsMeeting DetailsMultimedia
12/31/2003*Michael E. McMahon City Council Filed (End of Session)  Action details Meeting details Not available
4/10/2002*Michael E. McMahon City Council Referred to Comm by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
4/10/2002*Michael E. McMahon City Council Introduced by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available

Int. No. 147

 

By Council Members McMahon, Weprin, DeBlasio, Yassky and Liu; also Council Member Koppell

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to the distribution of weekly circulars in a plastic bag to dwellings and to repeal subdivision five of section 16-118 of such code.

 

                         Section 1.  Subdivision 5 of Section 16-118 of administrative code of the city of New York is REPEALED and a new subdivision 5 is added to read as follows:

                         5.a.  It shall be unlawful for any person to distribute or cause to be distributed to a dwelling without the permission of the property owner one or more weekly circulars contained in a plastic bag. 

                         b.  The commissioner shall be authorized to collect a fee each time one or more weekly circulars are distributed or caused to be distributed to a dwelling in a plastic bag.

                         §2.  This local law shall take effect immediately.