File #: Int 1449-2025    Version: * Name: Requiring the department of environmental protection to report on inspections of green infrastructure sites.
Type: Introduction Status: Filed (End of Session)
Committee: Committee on Environmental Protection, Resiliency and Waterfronts
On agenda: 10/29/2025
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring the department of environmental protection to report on inspections of green infrastructure sites
Sponsors: Sandra Ung, Joann Ariola , Farah N. Louis
Council Member Sponsors: 3
Summary: This bill would require the Department of Environmental Protection to publicly maintain on the Department’s website a report detailing each time a green infrastructure site is inspected or cleaned, and whether such maintenance was taken due to a complaint.
Indexes: Report Required
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 1449, 2. Int. No. 1449, 3. October 29, 2025 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 4. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 10-29-25

Int. No. 1449

 

By Council Members Ung, Ariola and Louis

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring the department of environmental protection to report on inspections of green infrastructure sites

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Chapter 5 of title 24 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 24-526.2 to read as follows:

§ 24-526.2 Green infrastructure inspection report. a. For the purposes of this section, the term “green infrastructure” means practices that use or mimic natural systems to manage stormwater runoff where stormwater is either directed to engineered systems for infiltration or detained at a slower rate before it enters the sewer system. Green infrastructure includes but is not limited to rain gardens, infiltration basins, stormwater greenstreets, green roofs, blue roofs, permeable paving, subsurface detention systems, rain barrels and cisterns.

b. The commissioner of environmental protection shall publish on the department’s website a report on green infrastructure sites, which shall at a minimum provide the following information about each green infrastructure site:

1. The date of the last inspection;

2. The date of the last cleaning or other maintenance; and

3. Whether the inspection, cleaning or other maintenance was in response to a complaint or regular activity of the department of environmental protection.

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

 

 

 

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LS #10649

11/2/2022