File #: Int 0809-2022    Version: * Name: Increasing the civil penalty for repeated littering violations.
Type: Introduction Status: Laid Over in Committee
Committee: Committee on Sanitation and Solid Waste Management
On agenda: 10/27/2022
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to increasing the civil penalty for repeated littering violations
Sponsors: Sandra Ung, Rita C. Joseph
Council Member Sponsors: 2
Summary: This bill would set a civil penalty of $1,000 for the twenty-first and subsequent violations for sidewalk littering and obstruction.
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 809, 2. Int. No. 809, 3. October 27, 2022 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 4. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 10-27-22, 5. Minutes of the Stated Meeting - October 27, 2022, 6. Committee Report 9/12/23, 7. Hearing Testimony 9/12/23, 8. Hearing Transcript 9/12/23

Int. No. 809

 

By Council Members Ung and Joseph

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to increasing the civil penalty for repeated littering violations

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Paragraph a of subdivision 9 of section 16-118 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as amended by local law number 80 for the year 2021, is amended to read as follows:

a.   (1)   not less than 50 and not more than 250 dollars for a first violation, except that the civil penalty shall be not less than 250 and not more than 350 dollars for a second violation of subdivision 4 or 6 of this section within any 12 month period, and not less than 350 and not more than 450 dollars for a third or subsequent violation of subdivision 4 or 6 of this section within any 12 month period;

      (2)   notwithstanding subparagraph (1) of paragraph a of this subdivision, 50 dollars for a first violation [of paragraph (a) of subdivision 2 or] of subdivision 3 of this section, or of any rules promulgated pursuant thereto, 100 dollars for a second violation of such [paragraph or] subdivision or of any rules promulgated pursuant thereto within any 12 month period, and 100 dollars for a third or subsequent violation of such [paragraph or] subdivision or of any rules promulgated pursuant thereto within any 12 month period;

      (3) notwithstanding subparagraph (1) of paragraph a of this subdivision, 50 dollars for a first violation of paragraph (a) of subdivision 2 of this section, or of any rules promulgated pursuant thereto, 100 dollars for a subsequent violation, up to twenty violations, of such subdivision or of any rules promulgated pursuant thereto within any 12 month period, and 1,000 dollars for a twenty-first or subsequent violation within any 12 month period;

§ 2. This local law takes effect 60 days after it becomes law.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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