Int. No. 120
By Council Members Lappin, Brewer, Fidler, Gentile, Koppell, Lander, Williams, Van Bramer, Garodnick, Dromm, Levin, Crowley, James, Mark-Viverito, Barron, Vacca, Gonzalez, Jackson, Dickens, Ferreras, Mendez, Reyna, Chin, Koslowitz, Rodriguez, Cabrera, Palma, Vann, Ulrich, Koo and The Public Advocate (Mr. de Blasio)
A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring the New York City Police Department to make certain traffic-related statistics available through its website.
Be it enacted by the Council as follows:
Section 1. Chapter one of title 14 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended to add a new section 14-152, to read as follows:
§14-152. Traffic related data to be placed on the world wide web. (a) The department shall make available to the public, through its website, the following traffic-related data: (1) the number of moving violation summonses issued, disaggregated by type of summons; (2) the number of traffic accidents, disaggregated by the type of vehicle or vehicles involved and by the number of motorists, passengers, bicyclists, and pedestrians involved; (3) the number of traffic fatalities disaggregated by (i) the number of motorists, passengers, bicyclists, and pedestrians involved and (ii) the apparent human contributing factor or factors involved in the accident, including, but not limited to, alcohol involvement, driver inattention/distraction, cell phone (hand-held) and cell phone (hands-free).
(b) The data, as defined in subdivision a, above, shall be displayed on the department's webpage, and disaggregated by precinct in the same manner, and updated as frequently as the department's publicly available crime statistics for the seven major felonies.
§2. This local law shall take effect 120 days after its enactment into law.
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LS #39
Int. 1094/2009
2/26/10