Legislation Details

File #: Int 0016-1998    Version: * Name: Public Litter Baskets, Fines For Dumping
Type: Introduction Status: Filed
Committee: Committee on Environmental Protection
On agenda: 1/22/1998
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to increasing fines for dumping household and commercial refuse into public litter baskets.
Sponsors: Peter F. Vallone, Martin Malave-Dilan, Howard L. Lasher, Guillermo Linares, Kenneth K. Fisher, Lloyd Henry, Wendell Foster, Sheldon S. Leffler, Walter L. McCaffrey, Jerome X. O'Donovan, Victor L. Robles, John D. Sabini
Council Member Sponsors: 12
Date Ver.Prime SponsorAction ByActionResultAction DetailsMeeting DetailsMultimedia
12/31/2001*Peter F. Vallone City Council Filed (End of Session)  Action details Meeting details Not available
2/12/1998*Peter F. Vallone Legislative Documents Unit Printed Item Laid on Desk  Action details Meeting details Not available
1/22/1998*Peter F. Vallone City Council Referred to Comm by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
1/22/1998*Peter F. Vallone City Council Introduced by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
Int. No. 16
 
Introduced by the Speaker (Council Member Vallone), Council Members Malave-Dilan, Lasher, Linares, Fisher and Henry; also Council Members Foster, Leffler, McCaffrey, O'Donovan, Robles and Sabini.
 
 
A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to increasing fines for dumping household and commercial refuse into public litter baskets.
 
 
Be it enacted by the Council as follows:
 
         Section 1.  Subdivision e of section 16-120 of of the administrative code of the City of New York is hereby REPEALED and subdivisions f through i are re-lettered e through h respectively.
         §2.  Chapter one of title sixteen of such code is hereby amended by the adding thereto a new section §16-119.1, to follow §16-119, to read as follows:
         §16-119.1.  Public litter receptacles.
         a.        No person shall deposit household or commercial refuse, incinerator residue or ashes, or liquid wastes in an open mesh litter basket placed on the streets by the department or any other person.
         b.        Any person violating the provisions of this section shall be liable for a civil penalty of not less than one hundred dollars nor more than three hundred dollars.
         §3.       This local law shall take effect thirty days after its enactment into law.
   
          Referred to the Committee on Environmental Protection.
 
 
 
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Int. 329