File #: Int 0774-2022    Version: Name: Requiring the department of environmental protection to measure construction-related sound levels inside dwelling units upon request and prohibited noise levels for sound attributable to construction devices on or after 7:00 a.m. and before 10 p.m.
Type: Introduction Status: Laid Over in Committee
Committee: Committee on Environmental Protection, Resiliency and Waterfronts
On agenda: 10/12/2022
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring the department of environmental protection to measure construction-related sound levels inside dwelling units upon request and prohibited noise levels for sound attributable to construction devices on or after 7:00 a.m. and before 10 p.m.
Sponsors: Keith Powers , Darlene Mealy, Lincoln Restler, Julie Menin, Kalman Yeger , Rita C. Joseph, Robert F. Holden, Lynn C. Schulman, Gale A. Brewer, Crystal Hudson, Erik D. Bottcher, Kamillah Hanks, Kevin C. Riley, Shaun Abreu, Christopher Marte, Linda Lee, Justin L. Brannan, Carlina Rivera , Tiffany Cabán
Council Member Sponsors: 19
Summary: This bill would require the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), upon the request of an owner, lessor or occupant of a dwelling unit within a building located within a half-mile radius of a construction site, to measure sound levels within such units with closed windows and doors.
Indexes: Agency Rule-making Required
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 774-A, 2. Summary of Int. No. 774, 3. Int. No. 774, 4. October 12, 2022 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 5. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 10-12-22, 6. Minutes of the Stated Meeting - October 12, 2022, 7. Committee Report 10/16/23, 8. Hearing Testimony 10/16/23, 9. Hearing Transcript 10/16/23, 10. Proposed Int. No. 774-A - 11/30/23

Proposed Int. No. 774-A

 

By Council Members Powers, Mealy, Restler, Menin, Yeger, Joseph, Holden, Schulman, Brewer, Hudson, Bottcher, Hanks, Riley, Abreu, Marte, Lee, Brannan, Rivera and Cabán

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring the department of environmental protection to measure construction-related sound levels inside dwelling units upon request and prohibited noise levels for sound attributable to construction devices on or after 7:00 a.m. and before 10 p.m.

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Subdivision 11 of section 24-203 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as amended by local law number 113 for the year 2005, is amended to read as follows:

(11) Building means a building as defined in section [27-232 of the administrative code] 28-101.5.

§ 2. Subchapter 4 of chapter 2 of title 24 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 24-224.1 to read as follows:

§ 24-224.1 Measuring sound levels in dwelling units upon request. When conducting an inspection pursuant to section 24-223, 24-228, or 24-229, upon the request of an owner, lessor or occupant of a residential receiving property dwelling unit within a building located within a half-mile radius of a construction site, the department shall measure the sound level at any point within such dwelling unit with windows and doors that may affect the measurement closed.

§ 3. Subdivision (a) of section 24-228 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new paragraph (4) to read as follows:

(4) Sound attributable to the source that is 10 dB(A) above the ambient sound level, on or after 7:00 a.m. and before 10:00 p.m., as measured in any residential receiving property dwelling unit with windows and doors that may affect the measurement closed.

§ 4. This local law takes effect 120 days after it becomes law.

 

 

Session 12

NAB/CCM

LS #1237

11/28/2023 3:02 PM

 

Session 11

JJ

LS #6932

Int. #1043-2018