Int. No. 746
By Council Members Gerson, Comrie, Fidler, Gentile, Gonzalez, Jackson, Palma and Stewart
A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring the electronic submission and sharing of plans.
Be it enacted by the Council as follows:
Section 1. Section 27-141 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as added by local law 76 for the year 1968, is amended to read as follows:
§27-141 Plans. With each application for approval of plans, there shall be submitted such number of copies of the plans as the commissioner may require including an electronic copy. All plans shall comply in form and content with requirements of this code and other applicable laws and regulations.
§2. Section 27-144 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as amended by local law 76 for the year 1985, is amended to read as follows:
§27-144 Approval of application and plans. Except as otherwise provided in section 27-198 and section 27-198.1 of article nineteen of this subchapter, applications and plans complying with the provisions of this code and other applicable laws and regulations shall be approved by the commissioner, and the commissioner shall make an electronic copy of such approved plans accessible to the fire commissioner within one business day of such approval, and written notice of approval shall be given the applicant promptly and no later than forty calendar days after the submission thereof, and applications and plans failing to comply with the provisions of this code and other applicable laws and regulations shall be rejected and written notice of rejection, stating the grounds of rejection, shall be given the applicant promptly and not later than forty calendar days after the submission thereof, except that on or before the fortieth day, the commissioner may on good cause shown, and upon notification to the applicant, extend such times for an additional twenty days. Whenever an application and accompanying plans have been rejected and are thereafter revised and resubmitted to meet stated grounds of rejection, the revised application and plans shall be approved if they meet the stated grounds of rejection, or shall be rejected if they fail to meet the stated grounds of rejection; and written notice of approval or written notice of rejection, stating the grounds of rejection, shall be given the applicant promptly and not later than twenty calendar days after the resubmission thereof.
§3. This local law shall take effect thirty days after its enactment.
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04/09/08