File #: Int 0677-2008    Version: * Name: Prohibiting objects containing glass packaging or containers on or within 150 feet of a beach owned by the City of New York.
Type: Introduction Status: Filed
Committee: Committee on Parks and Recreation
On agenda: 1/30/2008
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York in relation to prohibiting objects containing glass packaging or containers on or within 150 feet of a beach owned by the City of New York.
Sponsors: Sara M. Gonzalez, Letitia James, G. Oliver Koppell, Michael C. Nelson, Domenic M. Recchia, Jr., Larry B. Seabrook, Thomas White, Jr., Helen Sears
Council Member Sponsors: 8
Attachments: 1. Committee Report 4/18/08, 2. Hearing Testimony 4/18/08, 3. Hearing Transcript 4/18/08
Date Ver.Prime SponsorAction ByActionResultAction DetailsMeeting DetailsMultimedia
12/31/2009*Sara M. Gonzalez City Council Filed (End of Session)  Action details Meeting details Not available
4/18/2008*Sara M. Gonzalez Committee on Parks and Recreation Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
4/18/2008*Sara M. Gonzalez Committee on Parks and Recreation Laid Over Again by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
1/30/2008*Sara M. Gonzalez City Council Referred to Comm by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
1/30/2008*Sara M. Gonzalez City Council Introduced by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available

Int. No. 677

 

By Council Members Gonzalez, James, Koppell, Nelson, Recchia Jr., Seabrook, White Jr. and Sears

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York in relation to prohibiting objects containing glass packaging or containers on or within 150 feet of a beach owned by the City of New York.

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

Section one: Chapter 1 of title 18 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding new section 18-134, to read as follows:

§18-134 Prohibition on selling glass packaging or containers on or within one hundred fifty feet of any beach under the jurisdiction of the city of New York. a. It shall be unlawful for any person to sell or offer for sale on or within one hundred fifty feet of any beach under the jurisdiction of the city of New York any item made in whole or in part or which is sold or offered for sale with packaging or within a container made in whole or in part of glass.  For purposes of this section, “packaging or containers” shall include but not be limited to glass bottles, canisters and dishes.

b. Any person found to have violated subdivision one of this section shall be liable for a civil penalty in the amount of one hundred dollars for a first violation, two hundred fifty dollars for a second violation within a two-year period and five hundred dollars for a third violation or subsequent violation within a two-year period. 

§2 This local law shall take effect immediately upon enactment.    

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