File #: Int 0559-2005    Version: * Name: Construction and maintenance of private sewers.
Type: Introduction Status: Filed
Committee: Committee on Environmental Protection
On agenda: 2/16/2005
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to the construction and maintenance of private sewers.
Sponsors: Gifford Miller, James S. Oddo, Michael E. McMahon, Leroy G. Comrie, Jr., Lewis A. Fidler, Sara M. Gonzalez, John C. Liu, Michael C. Nelson, Annabel Palma, Bill Perkins, Domenic M. Recchia, Jr., Larry B. Seabrook, Helen Sears, Kendall Stewart, David I. Weprin
Council Member Sponsors: 15

Int. No. 559

 

By The Speaker (Council Member Miller) and Council Members Oddo, McMahon, Comrie, Fidler, Gonzalez, Liu, Nelson, Palma, Perkins, Recchia Jr., Seabrook, Sears, Stewart and Weprin

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to the construction and maintenance of private sewers.

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

                     Section 1.  Section 24-508 of the administrative code of the city of New York is hereby amended by adding thereto a new subdivision f to read as follows:

                     f.  For the purposes of this section, the term “sewer” shall include any pumping station constructed by the owner of private property pursuant to plans approved by the department in accordance with subdivision a of this section, irrespective of when such pumping station was constructed. Where a pumping station constructed by a private property owner is connected to any sewer constructed by a private property owner but to which the city has taken title in accordance with subdivision d of this section, the city shall be required to forthwith take such actions as are necessary to acquire title to such pumping station. 

                     §2.  The provisions of this local law shall take effect immediately upon its enactment into law.

 

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