File #: Int 0682-2011    Version: * Name: Requiring the department of design and construction to provide notice to residents prior to the scheduled interruption of water service.
Type: Introduction Status: Filed
Committee: Committee on Environmental Protection
On agenda: 9/21/2011
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the New York city charter, in relation to requiring the department of design and construction to provide notice to residents prior to the scheduled interruption of water service.
Sponsors: James G. Van Bramer, Fernando Cabrera , Leroy G. Comrie, Jr., Julissa Ferreras-Copeland, Lewis A. Fidler, Vincent J. Gentile, Letitia James, G. Oliver Koppell, Karen Koslowitz, Brad S. Lander, Rosie Mendez, Domenic M. Recchia, Jr., Deborah L. Rose, James Vacca, Jumaane D. Williams, Melissa Mark-Viverito, Michael C. Nelson, David G. Greenfield
Council Member Sponsors: 18
Date Ver.Prime SponsorAction ByActionResultAction DetailsMeeting DetailsMultimedia
12/31/2013*James G. Van Bramer City Council Filed (End of Session)  Action details Meeting details Not available
9/21/2011*James G. Van Bramer City Council Introduced by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
9/21/2011*James G. Van Bramer City Council Referred to Comm by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
Int. No. 682
 
By Council Members Van Bramer, Cabrera, Comrie, Ferreras, Fidler, Gentile, James, Koppell, Koslowitz, Lander, Mendez, Recchia, Rose, Vacca, Williams, Mark-Viverito, Nelson and Greenfield
 
 
A Local Law to amend the New York city charter, in relation to requiring the department of design and construction to provide notice to residents prior to the scheduled interruption of water service.
 
 
Be it enacted by the Council as follows:
 
Section 1. Chapter 55 of the New York city charter is amended by adding a new section 1206 to read as follows:
§1206. Notice of water service shut off. When, as the result of non-emergency planned work, the department schedules a water shut off that affects residential property, notice of the shut off must be provided to all occupants of such property at least seventy-two hours before the scheduled water shut off is to take place. Such notice shall be delivered to occupants of each residential unit and shall include information relating to the duration of the planned work.
§2. This local law shall take effect ninety days after its enactment.
 
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