File #: Int 1182-2023    Version: * Name: Rejecting sidewalk and roadway cafe licenses for food service establishments that violate labor laws.
Type: Introduction Status: Filed (End of Session)
Committee: Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
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 rejecting sidewalk and roadway cafe licenses for food service establishments that violate labor laws
Sponsors: Sandy Nurse, Althea V. Stevens, Jennifer Gutiérrez, Amanda Farías, Christopher Marte, Sandra Ung
Council Member Sponsors: 6
Summary: This bill allows the Department of Transportation to suspend or revoke a restaurant’s license to operate a sidewalk or roadway cafe due to non-compliance with local, state, or federal labor laws. Specifically, the bill requires applicants for sidewalk or roadway café licenses to disclose any labor law violations during the five years prior to the date of application. The bill permits the Commissioner of Transportation to deny an outdoor dining license if the restaurant has had three or more such violations.
Indexes: Agency Rule-making Required
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 1182, 2. Int. No. 1182, 3. September 14, 2023 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 4. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 9-14-23, 5. Minutes of the Stated Meeting - September 14, 2023

Int. No. 1182

 

By Council Members Nurse, Stevens, Gutiérrez, Farías, Marte and Ung

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to rejecting sidewalk and roadway cafe licenses for food service establishments that violate labor laws

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

     

Section 1. Section 19-160 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new subdivision k to read as follows:

k. An applicant for a sidewalk cafe or roadway cafe license shall disclose to the department any finding by a court of law or any final agency determination from the 5 years prior to the date of application that the applicant violated any New York city, New York state, or federal law, or any rule or regulation promulgated pursuant to such a law, relating to worker protection, compensation, safety, or discrimination. The commissioner may deny the license based on 3 or more such violations.

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

 

 

 

 

Session 12

ARP

LS 10933

8/15/23