File #: Int 0015-2010    Version: Name: Light-emitting diode bulbs in street lamps.
Type: Introduction Status: Filed
Committee: Committee on Transportation
On agenda: 2/3/2010
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to light-emitting diode bulbs in street lamps.
Sponsors: Jessica S. Lappin, Gale A. Brewer, Letitia James, G. Oliver Koppell, Brad S. Lander, Stephen T. Levin, Annabel Palma, Sara M. Gonzalez, Albert Vann, Karen Koslowitz, Ydanis A. Rodriguez, Daniel R. Garodnick, Joel Rivera, Melissa Mark-Viverito, David G. Greenfield, Peter F. Vallone, Jr., Robert Jackson, Daniel J. Halloran III
Council Member Sponsors: 18
Attachments: 1. Int. No. 15 - 2/3/10
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Proposed Int. No. 15-A
 
By Council Members Lappin, Brewer, James, Koppell, Lander, Levin, Palma, Gonzalez, Vann, Koslowitz, Rodriguez, Garodnick, Rivera, Mark-Viverito, Greenfield, Vallone, Jackson and Halloran
 
 
A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to light-emitting diode bulbs in street lamps.
 
 
Be it enacted by the Council as follows:
 
      Section 1.  Subchapter one of chapter one of title 19 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 19-125.1 to read as follows:
      § 19-125.1  Light-emitting diode street lamps.  a.  For the purposes of this section, the following terms shall be defined as follows:             
      1.  "Decorative street lamp" shall mean a collectible lamp, under the jurisdiction of the department, supported by a lamppost and used to illuminate a street or other public area, representing a former period and valued for its age, rarity, condition, or other unique feature.
2.  "Light-emitting diode bulb" shall mean a semiconductor diode that emits light when an electric current is applied.
      3.  "Street lamp" shall mean a lamp, under the jurisdiction of the department, supported by a lamppost and used to illuminate a street or other public area.
            b.  The department shall install light-emitting diode bulbs in all street lamps or replace any street lamps that are incapable of accommodating light-emitting diode bulbs with street lamps using such bulbs when any bulbs in any street lamps are replaced; provided, however, that decorative street lamps, as designated by the commissioner, shall not be subject to the requirements of this section.
      § 2.  This local law shall take effect thirty days after it is enacted into law.
 
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