File #: Int 1060-2023    Version: * Name: Prohibiting vending or vendor-related activity in bicycle lanes.
Type: Introduction Status: Committee
Committee: Committee on Consumer and Worker Protection
On agenda: 5/25/2023
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to prohibiting vending or vendor-related activity in bicycle lanes
Sponsors: Julie Menin, Marjorie Velázquez, Selvena N. Brooks-Powers
Council Member Sponsors: 3
Summary: This bill would prohibit general vendors and mobile food vendors from vending in bicycle lanes, and it would prohibit vendor-related activity from occupying bicycle lanes.
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 1060, 2. Int. No. 1060

Int. No. 1060

 

By Council Members Menin, Velázquez and Brooks-Powers

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to prohibiting vending or vendor-related activity in bicycle lanes

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Section 17-315 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new subdivision g to read as follows:

g. No food vending vehicle, pushcart, goods or any other item related to the operation of a food vending business shall be placed on or within a bicycle lane. For purposes of this section, the term “bicycle lane” means a portion of the roadway that has been marked off or separated for the preferential or exclusive use of bicycles.

§ 2. Section 20-465 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new subdivision h to read as follows:

h. No vending vehicle, pushcart, stand, goods or any other item related to the operation of a vending business shall be placed on or within a bicycle lane. For purposes of this section, the term “bicycle lane” means a portion of the roadway that has been marked off or separated for the preferential or exclusive use of bicycles.

                     § 3. This local law takes effect 30 days after it becomes law.

 

 

 

 

 

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LS #9485

4/11/23