File #: Int 0520-2011    Version: * Name: Identifying snow plow routes and snow removal priority designations for City streets.
Type: Introduction Status: Filed
Committee: Committee on Sanitation and Solid Waste Management
On agenda: 3/23/2011
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to identifying snow plow routes and snow removal priority designations for City streets.
Sponsors: James Vacca, Vincent J. Gentile, Fernando Cabrera , Leroy G. Comrie, Jr., Daniel Dromm , Lewis A. Fidler, Letitia James, G. Oliver Koppell, Karen Koslowitz, Michael C. Nelson, Domenic M. Recchia, Jr., Albert Vann, Jumaane D. Williams, Melissa Mark-Viverito, Daniel J. Halloran III
Council Member Sponsors: 15
Attachments: 1. Committee Report 3/9/11, 2. Hearing Testimony 3/9/11, 3. Hearing Transcript 3/9/11
Int. No. 520
 
By Council Members Vacca, Gentile, Cabrera, Comrie, Dromm, Fidler, James, Koppell, Koslowitz, Nelson, Recchia, Vann, Williams, Mark-Viverito and Halloran
 
 
A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to identifying snow plow routes and snow removal priority designations for City streets.  
 
 
Be it enacted by the Council as follows:      
Section 1. Chapter 1 of title 16 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 16-124.3 to read as follows:
§ 16-124.3 Snow plow routes and priority designation for city streets.  a.(1) No later than October 1, 2011, the commissioner shall issue a report to be made available to the public on the department's website identifying i) department snow plow routes for each community district and/or sanitation section and ii) the snow removal priority designations of all city streets, organized based on community district and/or sanitation section;
(2) Such priority designations shall be based on a three-tiered designation of primary, secondary and tertiary streets;
(3) The commissioner shall define each of the three priority designation tiers, provide criteria for making such designations and identify implications of such designation for snow removal.
b. No later than October 1, 2012 and annually thereafter, the commissioner shall update such report and make it available to the public on the department's website; such update shall include but not be limited to any changes to the priority designation of any streets and changes to the priority designation terminology or definitions.
§ 2. This local law shall take effect immediately.  
LS# 1916 - JJH
2/23/11 8:30 p.m.