File #: Int 0326-2004    Version: * Name: Requiring the appropriate city agency to make available on the city's official website biographical information pertaining to all street name changes.
Type: Introduction Status: Filed
Committee: Committee on Parks and Recreation
On agenda: 4/21/2004
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring the appropriate city agency to make available on the city’s official website biographical information pertaining to all street name changes.
Sponsors: Gale A. Brewer, Leroy G. Comrie, Jr., Melinda R. Katz, Yvette D. Clarke, Albert Vann, Letitia James, David I. Weprin, Michael C. Nelson, Christine C. Quinn, Charles Barron, Tracy L. Boyland, James F. Gennaro, Vincent J. Gentile, Alan J. Gerson, Eric N. Gioia, John C. Liu, Margarita Lopez, Miguel Martinez, Joel Rivera, James Sanders, Jr., Kendall Stewart, Robert Jackson
Council Member Sponsors: 22
Attachments: 1. Committee Report, 2. Hearing Transcript
Date Ver.Prime SponsorAction ByActionResultAction DetailsMeeting DetailsMultimedia
12/31/2005*Gale A. Brewer City Council Filed (End of Session)  Action details Meeting details Not available
11/16/2004*Gale A. Brewer Committee on Parks and Recreation Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
11/16/2004*Gale A. Brewer Committee on Parks and Recreation Laid Over by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
4/21/2004*Gale A. Brewer City Council Referred to Comm by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
4/21/2004*Gale A. Brewer City Council Introduced by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available

Int. No. 326

 

By Council Member Brewer, Comrie, Katz, Clarke, Vann, James, Weprin, Nelson, Quinn, Barron, Boyland, Gennaro, Gentile, Gerson, Gioia, Liu, Lopez, Martinez, Rivera, Sanders, Stewart and Jackson

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring the appropriate city agency to make available on the city’s official website biographical information pertaining to all street name changes.

 

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Declaration of legislative findings and intent. Due to increased awareness and questions from the people of the city of New York pertaining to the renaming of streets, the Council believes it is appropriate to create a mechanism that will allow individuals to have biographical and/or background information available on the official city website that pertains to a renamed or co-named street.

§2.  Chapter 1 of title 25 the of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section, §25-102.2, to read as follows:

§25-102.2. Street Name Reporting a. Whenever a street is renamed or co-named pursuant to section 25-102.1 of this chapter, the city shall make available biographical and/or background information as to the nature of the street renaming or co-naming on the official city website. 

b. Such information shall be made available on the website within ninety days of the enactment of the local law which renamed or co-named the street.

§3. This local law shall take effect immediately upon its enactment into law and shall only be required for streets renamed or co-named after its enactment.

LS# 15

THC

1/6/2005 11:45 AM

H:\streets\website bios\website bill.doc