Int. No. 1076-A

By Council Members Gentile, Vacca, Vallone, Comrie, Dilan, Felder, Fidler, Gonazlez, James, Koppell, Palma, Sanders Jr., Seabrook, Stewart, Weprin, Gerson, Nelson, Mendez, Jackson, White Jr., Liu, Eugene, Gennaro and Recchia Jr.

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to notification of certain changes involving parking meters.

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

Section 1. Subchapter 2 of chapter one of title 19 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 19-175.3 to read as follows:

§19-175.3  Notification of changes involving parking meters. Before the department changes parking meter rates or replaces a parking meter with a different type of parking meter, it shall provide at least thirty days written notice of such changes by regular first-class mail and electronic mail to the community board and council member in whose district the affected parking meters are or will be located and by posting such written notice on the department’s website.  Such notice shall at a minimum provide the following information with regard to the changes:

1.  Parking rates.  Notice shall state the proposed new rate, the location(s) of the meters affected by such rate change and the earliest date such new rate will go into effect.

2.  Change in meter type.  Notice shall state the location(s) where meters will be converted and the earliest date such converted meters will go into operation.

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

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