File #: Int 0602-2011    Version: * Name: Requiring the Commissioner of the department of environmental protection and the fire commissioner to select, and the commissioner of the department of environmental protection to install and maintain fire hydrant markers.
Type: Introduction Status: Filed
Committee: Committee on Fire and Criminal Justice Services
On agenda: 6/14/2011
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring the Commissioner of the department of environmental protection and the fire commissioner to select, and the commissioner of the department of environmental protection to install and maintain fire hydrant markers.
Sponsors: Mark S. Weprin, Daniel J. Halloran III, Fernando Cabrera , Letitia James, Jumaane D. Williams, Michael C. Nelson
Council Member Sponsors: 6
Int. No. 602
 
By Council Members Weprin, Halloran, Cabrera, James, Williams and Nelson
 
 
A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring the Commissioner of the department of environmental protection and the fire commissioner to select, and the commissioner of the department of environmental protection to install and maintain fire hydrant markers.
 
 
Be it enacted by the Council as follows:
 
      Section 1. Chapter 3 of title 24 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding new section 24-308.1 to read as follows:
§24-308.1 Fire hydrant marker selection, installation and maintenance.
The commissioner shall, in consultation with the fire commissioner, establish specifications for fire hydrant markers and procure, install and maintain such fire hydrant markers, which shall, at a minimum, be clearly visible at least 3 feet above each fire hydrant in the city of new york. Such fire hydrant markers shall be installed by December 1, 2011 in a manner that does not impede access to the fire hydrants.
§2. This local law shall take effect immediately.
LS #'s 2066
RCC
04/06/11