File #: Int 0776-2022    Version: Name: Providing noise inspection reports.
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 providing noise inspection reports
Sponsors: Keith Powers , 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: 18
Summary: This bill would require the Department of Environmental Protection and the Police Department to give a copy of the noise inspection report created after a 311 noise complaint to anyone who requests the report and provides the 311 tracking number. The person requesting the noise inspection report would not have to submit a Freedom of Information Law request to receive the report.
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 776-A, 2. Summary of Int. No. 776, 3. Int. No. 776, 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. 776-A - 11/30/23

Proposed Int. No. 776-A

 

By Council Members Powers, 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 providing noise inspection reports

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Subchapter 2 of chapter 2 of title 24 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 24-217.2 to read as follows:

§ 24-217.2 Noise inspection reports. a. Where the department generates a noise inspection report pursuant to a complaint submitted through 311, any person may request a copy of such report by providing the 311 tracking number on a form and in a manner to be specified by the department subject to subdivision d of this section.

b. Where the police department generates a noise inspection report pursuant to a complaint submitted through 311, any person may request a copy of such report by providing the 311 tracking number to the police department on a form and in a manner to be specified by such department subject to subdivision d of this section.

c. The department or police department shall provide a copy of a report requested under this section within 14 days of receiving such a request.

d. The department or police department shall not deny or decline to act on a request made pursuant to this section on the ground that such request fails to constitute a request made pursuant to section 87 of the public officers law.

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

 

 

 

 

Session 12

MHL/CCM

LS #2760

11/21/2023 3:05 PM

 

Session 11

JSA

LS #11193

Int. 2190-2020