File #: Int 0249-2004    Version: * Name: In relation to overcrowding.
Type: Introduction Status: Filed
Committee: Committee on Fire and Criminal Justice Services
On agenda: 3/10/2004
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to overcrowding.
Sponsors: Yvette D. Clarke, Maria Baez, G. Oliver Koppell, Larry B. Seabrook, Kendall Stewart, (by request of the Mayor)
Council Member Sponsors: 6
Attachments: 1. Committee Report, 2. Hearing Transcript
Int. No. 249
 
By Council Members Clarke, Baez, Koppell, Seabrook and Stewart (by request of the Mayor)
 
 
A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of  New York, in relation to overcrowding.
 
 
Be it enacted by the Council as follows:
 
Section 1.  Title 27 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 27-4265.1 to read as follows:
§ 27-4265.1 Overcrowding.  The number of occupants in any building or space shall not exceed the maximum number of occupants specified for such building or space by the certificate of occupancy or other authorization issued by the department of buildings, or, in the absence of such certificate or authorization, the maximum number of occupants established by using the appropriate occupant-area ratios from table 6-2 of chapter one of this title.  
§2.  This local law shall take effect immediately.