File #: Int 0665-2011    Version: * Name: Locating electrical conductors underground.
Type: Introduction Status: Filed
Committee: Committee on Environmental Protection
On agenda: 9/8/2011
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to locating electrical conductors underground.
Sponsors: Elizabeth S. Crowley, Daniel Dromm , Julissa Ferreras-Copeland, Sara M. Gonzalez, Letitia James, Karen Koslowitz, Deborah L. Rose, James G. Van Bramer
Council Member Sponsors: 8
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12/31/2013*Elizabeth S. Crowley City Council Filed (End of Session)  Action details Meeting details Not available
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9/8/2011*Elizabeth S. Crowley City Council Referred to Comm by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
Int. No. 665
 
By Council Members Crowley, Dromm, Ferreras, Gonzalez, James, Koslowitz, Rose and Van Bramer
 
 
A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to locating electrical conductors underground.
 
 
Be it enacted by the Council as follows:
 
Section 1. Pursuant to section 24-416 of the administrative code of the city of New York, the council deems it desirable and practicable that all of the electrical conductors located above ground on any street within the area described in section three of this local law shall be placed underground.
§2. The commissioner of transportation shall notify the owners or operators of electrical conductors located above ground on any street within the area described in section three of this local law that such electrical conductors shall be placed underground within a certain time, sufficient for the proper construction of underground conduits or other channels in such street, to be fixed by such commissioner.
§3. The area in which all of the electrical conductors located above ground shall be placed underground pursuant to section one of this law is all of that portion of Queens county bounded and described as follows: beginning at the point of intersection of 57th Place and Rust Street, and proceeding northerly along 57th Place to Maspeth Avenue, and proceeding easterly along Maspeth Avenue to Maurice Avenue, and proceeding northerly along Maurice Avenue to 53rd Drive, and proceeding easterly along 53rd Drive to 66th Street, and proceeding northerly along 66th street to Maurice Avenue, and proceeding easterly along Maurice Avenue to 51st Avenue, and proceeding easterly along 51st Avenue to New York Central Railroad, and proceeding southerly along New York Central Railroad to I-495, and proceeding easterly along I-495 to 58th Avenue, and proceeding easterly along 58th Avenue to 84th Street, and proceeding easterly along 84th Street to 63rd Avenue, and proceeding easterly along 63rd Avenue to Woodhaven Boulevard, and proceeding southerly along Woodhaven Boulevard to Long Island Railroad, and proceeding easterly along Long Island Railroad to Union Turnpike, and proceeding easterly along Union Turnpike to Metropolitan Avenue, and proceeding easterly along Metropolitan Avenue to Park Lane South, and proceeding southerly along Park Lane South to 115th Street, and proceeding southerly along 115th Street to 84th Avenue, and proceeding easterly along 84th Avenue to 118th Street, and proceeding southerly along 118th Street to Hillside Avenue, and proceeding southerly along Hillside Avenue to 117th Street, and proceeding southerly along 117th Street to Jamaica Avenue, and proceeding westerly along Jamaica Avenue to 107th Street, and proceeding southerly along 107th Street to 92nd Avenue, and proceeding westerly along 92nd Avenue to New York City Transit Authority, and proceeding southerly along New York Transit Authority to Atlantic Avenue, and proceeding westerly along Atlantic Avenue to Woodhaven Boulevard, and proceeding northerly along Woodhaven Boulevard to Jamaica Avenue, and proceeding westerly along Jamaica Avenue to Forest Parkway, and proceeding northerly along Forest Parkway to Park Lane South, and proceeding westerly along Park Lane South to the Kings/Queens county line, and proceeding northerly along the Kings NY/Queens NY county line to Long Island Railroad, and proceeding easterly along Long Island Railroad to Cooper Avenue, and proceeding northerly along Cooper Avenue to Long Island Railroad, and proceeding northerly along Long Island Railroad to Myrtle Avenue, and proceeding westerly along Myrtle Avenue to Forest Avenue, and proceeding northerly along Forest Avenue to Catalpa Avenue, and proceeding westerly along Catalpa Avenue to Woodward Avenue, and proceeding northerly along Woodward Avenue to Stanhope Street, and proceeding northerly along Stanhope Street to Grandview Avenue, and proceeding westerly along Grandview Avenue to Rene Court, and proceeding northerly along Rene Court to Metropolitan Avenue, and proceeding westerly along Metropolitan Avenue to Arnold Avenue, and proceeding northerly along Arnold Avenue to Long Island Railroad, and proceeding easterly along Long Island Railroad to Flushing Avenue, and proceeding easterly along Flushing Avenue to Rust Street, and proceeding northerly along Rust Street to the point beginning.
§4. This local law shall take effect immediately.
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