File #: Int 0600-2007    Version: * Name: Solid waste collections.
Type: Introduction Status: Filed
Committee: Committee on Sanitation and Solid Waste Management
On agenda: 7/25/2007
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to solid waste collections.
Sponsors: Simcha Felder, Gale A. Brewer, Lewis A. Fidler, Alan J. Gerson, Letitia James, Michael C. Nelson, Kendall Stewart, Maria Baez, Domenic M. Recchia, Jr., James Sanders, Jr., James Vacca, David Yassky, Leroy G. Comrie, Jr., Inez E. Dickens, Vincent J. Gentile, Albert Vann, David I. Weprin, Melissa Mark-Viverito, Tony Avella
Council Member Sponsors: 19
Attachments: 1. Committee Report 6/16/09, 2. Hearing Transcript 6/16/09, 3. Hearing Testimony 6/16/09

Int. No. 600

 

By Council Members Felder, Brewer, Fidler, Gerson, James, Nelson, Stewart, Baez, Recchia Jr., Sanders Jr., Vacca, Yassky, Comrie, Dickens, Gentile, Vann, Weprin, Mark-Viverito and Avella

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to solid waste collections.

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1.  Chapter one of title 16 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 16-120.2 to read as follows:

§ 16-120.2 Weekly solid waste and recycling collections.  Whenever a regularly scheduled solid waste or recycling collection is not made by the department due to the observance of a holiday, the solid waste or recyclable material not collected because of such observance must be collected within forty-eight hours of the department resuming regularly scheduled collections. Such collection shall not result in alterations of regularly scheduled solid waste and recycling collections except that such collections may be made within twenty-four hours after their normally scheduled collection time.

§2. This local law shall take effect immediately.

CJC-7/5/07

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