File #: Int 0956-2023    Version: * Name: Penalties for failure to apply for corresponding work permits after installing a sidewalk shed.
Type: Introduction Status: Filed (End of Session)
Committee: Committee on Housing and Buildings
On agenda: 3/16/2023
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to penalties for failure to apply for corresponding work permits after installing a sidewalk shed
Sponsors: Erik D. Bottcher, Pierina Ana Sanchez, Keith Powers , Farah N. Louis, Christopher Marte, Shaun Abreu, Lincoln Restler, Lynn C. Schulman, Crystal Hudson, Diana I. Ayala, Robert F. Holden, Oswald Feliz, Marjorie Velázquez, Gale A. Brewer, Shekar Krishnan, Nantasha M. Williams, Kevin C. Riley, Shahana K. Hanif, Carlina Rivera , Vickie Paladino
Council Member Sponsors: 20
Summary: This bill would create penalties for property owners who fail to apply for corresponding work permits within 6 months of installing a sidewalk shed, and would require the Department of Buildings to inform applicants regarding expected delays in the issuance of work permits following the issuance of a sidewalk shed a permit.
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 956, 2. Int. No. 956, 3. March 16, 2023 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 4. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 3-16-23, 5. Minutes of the Stated Meeting - March 16, 2023

Int. No. 956

By Council Members Bottcher, Sanchez, Powers, Louis, Marte, Abreu, Restler, Schulman, Hudson, Ayala, Holden, Feliz, Velázquez, Brewer, Krishnan, Williams, Riley, Hanif, Rivera and Paladino

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to penalties for failure to apply for corresponding work permits after installing a sidewalk shed

 

 Be it enacted by the Council as follows:                     Section 1. Article 112 of title 28 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 28-112.4.1 to read as follows:

§ 28-112.4.1 Sidewalk shed installed before work permit application. Any property owner who does not submit an application for the corresponding work permits within 6 months after installing a sidewalk shed required pursuant to Section 3307.6.2 shall be subject to a penalty, determined by the department, in addition to the required permit fees. 

 

§ 2. Section 28-103.11 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as amended by local law number 126 for the year 2021, is amended to read as follows:

§ 28-103.11 Applications and permits. The department shall receive and review applications, construction documents, and other related documents and shall issue permits, in accordance with the provisions of this code. The department shall inform applicants of any expected delay in the issuance of corresponding work permits following the issuance of a sidewalk shed permit. The department shall, on a weekly basis, send council members and community boards, by electronic mail, a copy of all completed applications for a new building or an alteration that will require a new certificate of occupancy for a building, received during the prior week, disaggregated by community board. In addition, the department shall post such information on its website on a weekly basis.

 

§ 3. This local law takes effect 90 days after it becomes law.

 

 

 

 

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3/13/2023