File #: Int 0139-2010    Version: * Name: Reducing the minimum distance at which a vehicle can park adjacent to a fire hydrant.
Type: Introduction Status: Filed
Committee: Committee on Transportation
On agenda: 4/14/2010
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend to administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to reducing the minimum distance at which a vehicle can park adjacent to a fire hydrant.
Sponsors: Daniel Dromm , Charles Barron, Leroy G. Comrie, Jr., Letitia James, Michael C. Nelson, Jumaane D. Williams, David G. Greenfield, Joel Rivera, Daniel J. Halloran III, Eric A. Ulrich
Council Member Sponsors: 10
Int. No. 139
 
By Council Members Dromm, Barron, Comrie, James, Nelson, Williams, Greenfield, Rivera, Halloran and Ulrich  
 
 
A Local Law to amend to administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to reducing the minimum distance at which a vehicle can park adjacent to a fire hydrant.
 
 
Be it enacted by the Council as follows:
 
Section 1. Chapter 1 of title 19 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 19-165.1 to read as follows:
§19-165.1 Stopping, standing or parking near fire hydrants.  Notwithstanding any laws to the contrary, no person shall stop, stand, or park a vehicle within ten feet of a fire hydrant except when such vehicle is attended by a licensed operator who is seated in the front seat and who can immediately move such vehicle in case of emergency.
§2.  This local law shall take effect sixty days after its enactment into law, except that the commissioner of transportation shall take all actions necessary for its implementation prior to such effective date.
 
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