File #: Int 1161-2023    Version: * Name: Allowing reusable beverage containers in sports venues.
Type: Introduction Status: Committee
Committee: Committee on Sanitation and Solid Waste Management
On agenda: 9/14/2023
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to allowing reusable beverage containers in sports venues
Sponsors: Shaun Abreu, Marjorie Velázquez, Keith Powers , Crystal Hudson, Sandy Nurse, Lincoln Restler, Shekar Krishnan, Julie Menin, Lynn C. Schulman, Althea V. Stevens, Erik D. Bottcher, Jennifer Gutiérrez, Shahana K. Hanif, Christopher Marte
Council Member Sponsors: 14
Summary: This bill would require professional and collegiate sports venues to allow attendees to enter the venue with a reusable beverage container and establish penalties for venues that fail to comply. Sports venues would be able to require reusable beverage containers be empty upon entering the venue and to restrict the type of reusable beverage container allowed, as long as at least one type of reusable beverage container is permitted.
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 1161, 2. Int. No. 1161, 3. September 14, 2023 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 4. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 9-14-23

Int. No. 1161

 

By Council Members Abreu, Velázquez, Powers, Hudson, Nurse, Restler, Krishnan, Menin, Schulman, Stevens, Bottcher, Gutiérrez, Hanif and Marte

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to allowing reusable beverage containers in sports venues

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Chapter 4 of title 16 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding new section 16-403 to read as follows:

§ 16-403 Reusable beverage container in sports venues. a. Definitions. For the purposes of this section, the following terms have the following meanings:

Reusable beverage container. The term “reusable beverage container” means a drinking vessel that is designed and manufactured to be capable of multiple reuses.

Sports venue. The term “sports venue” means a building, structure, or place in which professional or collegiate sporting competitions are held.

b. A sports venue shall not prohibit an individual from bringing a reusable beverage container into the venue, except as provided in this section. A sports venue may require that reusable beverage containers be empty upon entering the venue and may restrict the types of reusable beverage container permitted into the venue, including by specifying the size and material of permissible beverage containers, provided that the sports venue permits at least one type of reusable beverage container.

c. The department, the department of health and mental hygiene and the department of consumer and worker protection shall enforce the provisions of this section.

d. Any sports venue that violates this section or any rule promulgated pursuant thereto shall be liable for a civil penalty recoverable in a civil action brought in the name of the commissioner, the commissioner of health and mental hygiene, or the commissioner of consumer and worker protection, or in a proceeding before the office of administrative trials and hearings. Such penalties shall be in the amount of $500 for the first violation, $750 for the second violation committed on a different day within a period of 12 months, and $1,000 for the third and each subsequent violation committed on different days within a period of 12 months.

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

APM

LS #13455

8/29/2023