File #: Int 0493-2003    Version: * Name: Lobbyist registration fees and certain city clerk fees.
Type: Introduction Status: Filed
Committee: Committee on Finance
On agenda: 5/28/2003
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to lobbyist registration fees and certain city clerk fees and to repeal section 27-4029 of the administrative code of the city of New York relating to exemptions from the payment of fees for fire department permits and inspections.
Sponsors: David I. Weprin, Leroy G. Comrie, Jr., (by request of the Mayor)
Council Member Sponsors: 3

Int. No. 493

By Council Members Weprin and Comrie (by request of the Mayor)

A Local Law  to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to lobbyist registration fees and certain city clerk fees and to repeal section 27-4029 of the administrative code of the city of New York relating to exemptions from the payment of fees for fire department permits and inspections.

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

Section 1.   Subdivision  (e) of section 3-213 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as added by local law 14 of the laws of 1986, is amended to read as follows:

        (e)  Each statement of registration filed annually by each lobbyist shall be accompanied by a registration fee [established by the city clerk in an amount not to exceed] of  one hundred fifty dollars. An additional fee may be imposed not to exceed [twenty] fifty dollars for each client in  excess  of  one identified on such statement.

§  2.                       Subdivisions 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, and 12  of section 3-207 of the administrative code of the city of New York,  subdivision 10 as amended by local law 60 of the laws of 1991 and subdivision 12 amended by local law 43 of the laws of 1992, are amended and a new subdivision 14 is added to read as follows:

                     4.  For filing of all other papers, required by law to be filed in the city clerk’s office [fifteen cents] nine dollars;

                     5.  For a certificate of appointment of a commissioner of deeds, [twenty-five] fifty  cents;

                     6.  For a certified extract from any marriage record file in the city clerk’s office, [one dollar] ten dollars;

                     8.  For certification of marriage status to be used by applicant in foreign jurisdictions [five] fifteen dollars;

                        9. In any instance where the personal hand signature of the city clerk or his or her first deputy is requested, [three] ten dollars; 

                     10.  For filing an application for correcting a marriage record, pursuant to section twenty of the domestic relations law, [twenty-five] forty dollars, which shall include a photostatic copy of the existing marriage record and the issuance of a new amended certificate.  Such fee shall not be returned in the event of the application is rejected for insufficiency or other pertinent reason.  Upon denial of such application, ten dollars shall be refunded;

                      12.                     For issuance of a certificate of marriage registration pursuant to section fourteen-a of the domestic relations law,  [five] ten  dollars.

                     14.  For persons registering to perform marriage ceremonies with the clerk of the city of New York pursuant to section 11-b of the domestic relations law,  fifteen dollars.

§ 3.                       Section 27-4029 of the administrative code of the city of New York is REPEALED.

§ 4.  Sections one and two of this local law shall take effect on July 1, 2003.  Section three of this local law shall take effect immediately.