File #: Int 0110-2006    Version: Name: Public Litter Baskets, Fines For Dumping
Type: Introduction Status: Enacted
Committee: Committee on Sanitation and Solid Waste Management
On agenda: 2/15/2006
Enactment date: 9/5/2007 Law number: 2007/042
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to increasing fines for dumping household and commercial refuse into public litter baskets.
Sponsors: Michael E. McMahon, Joseph P. Addabbo, Jr., Lewis A. Fidler, Vincent J. Gentile, G. Oliver Koppell, Melissa Mark-Viverito, Miguel Martinez, Rosie Mendez, Michael C. Nelson, Domenic M. Recchia, Jr., James Sanders, Jr., David I. Weprin, John C. Liu, Robert Jackson, Sara M. Gonzalez, Peter F. Vallone, Jr., Simcha Felder, Helen Sears, James F. Gennaro, Betsy Gotbaum
Council Member Sponsors: 20
Attachments: 1. Int. No. 110 - 2/15/06, 2. Committee Report 6/13/07, 3. Hearing Testimony 6/13/07, 4. Hearing Transcript 6/13/07, 5. Committee Report 8/22/07, 6. Hearing Transcript 8/22/07, 7. Hearing Testimony 8/22/07, 8. Press Release, 9. Fiscal Impact Statement, 10. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 8/22/07, 11. Local Law
Date Ver.Prime SponsorAction ByActionResultAction DetailsMeeting DetailsMultimedia
9/5/2007AMichael E. McMahon City Council Recved from Mayor by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
9/5/2007AMichael E. McMahon Mayor Signed Into Law by Mayor  Action details Meeting details Not available
9/5/2007AMichael E. McMahon Mayor Hearing Held by Mayor  Action details Meeting details Not available
8/22/2007AMichael E. McMahon City Council Sent to Mayor by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
8/22/2007AMichael E. McMahon City Council Approved by CouncilPass Action details Meeting details Not available
8/22/2007*Michael E. McMahon Committee on Sanitation and Solid Waste Management Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
8/22/2007*Michael E. McMahon Committee on Sanitation and Solid Waste Management Amendment Proposed by Comm  Action details Meeting details Not available
8/22/2007*Michael E. McMahon Committee on Sanitation and Solid Waste Management Amended by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
8/22/2007AMichael E. McMahon Committee on Sanitation and Solid Waste Management Approved by CommitteePass Action details Meeting details Not available
6/13/2007*Michael E. McMahon Committee on Sanitation and Solid Waste Management Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
6/13/2007*Michael E. McMahon Committee on Sanitation and Solid Waste Management Laid Over by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
2/15/2006*Michael E. McMahon City Council Referred to Comm by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
2/15/2006*Michael E. McMahon City Council Introduced by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
Int. No. 110-A
 
By Council Members McMahon, Addabbo Jr., Fidler, Gentile, Koppell, Mark-Viverito, Martinez, Mendez, Nelson, Recchia Jr., Sanders Jr., Weprin, Liu, Jackson, Gonzalez, Vallone Jr., Felder, Sears, Gennaro and The Public Advocate (Ms. Gotbaum).
 
 
A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to increasing fines for dumping household and commercial refuse into public litter baskets.
 
 
Be it enacted by the Council as follows:
 
         Section 1.  Subdivision e and f of section 16-120 of the administrative code of the City of New York as amended by local law 1 of he year 2003 are amended to read as follows:
e. No person shall deposit household or commercial refuse [, incinerator residue or ashes,] or liquid wastes in [an open mesh] a public litter basket placed on the streets by the department or any other person. There shall be a rebuttable presumption that the person whose name, or other identifying information, appears on any household or commercial refuse or liquid wastes deposited in such public litter basket violated this subdivision.  
f.       Any person violating the provisions of this section, except subdivision e, shall be liable for a civil penalty of not less than twenty-five nor more than one hundred dollars for the first violation, [except that for a second violation of this section within any twelve-month period such person shall be liable for a civil penalty of] not less than one hundred dollars nor more than two hundred dollars for a second violation within any twelve-month period, and [for a third or subsequent violation within any twelve-month period such person shall be liable for a civil penalty of] not less than two hundred dollars nor more than three hundred dollars for a third or subsequent violation with any twelve-month period. Any person violating the provisions of subdivision e of this section shall be liable for a civil penalty of not less than one hundred dollars nor more than three hundred dollars for the first violation, not less than two hundred fifty dollars nor more than three hundred fifty dollars for a second violation  within any twelve-month period, and not less than three hundred fifty dollars nor more than four hundred dollars for a third or subsequent violation within any twelve month period.
         ยง2.       This local law shall take effect thirty days after it is enacted into law.
 
Int. 102/2004
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