Legislation Details

File #: Int 0176-1998    Version: * Name: Right-To-Know Law Reporting Requirements
Type: Introduction Status: Filed
Committee: Committee on Environmental Protection
On agenda: 2/26/1998
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to reporting requirements pursuant to the community right-to-know law.
Sponsors: Sheldon S. Leffler, Wendell Foster, Pedro G. Espada, Guillermo Linares, Walter L. McCaffrey, Stanley E. Michels
Council Member Sponsors: 6
Date Ver.Prime SponsorAction ByActionResultAction DetailsMeeting DetailsMultimedia
12/31/2001*Sheldon S. Leffler City Council Filed (End of Session)  Action details Meeting details Not available
3/17/1998*Sheldon S. Leffler Legislative Documents Unit Printed Item Laid on Desk  Action details Meeting details Not available
2/26/1998*Sheldon S. Leffler City Council Referred to Comm by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
2/26/1998*Sheldon S. Leffler City Council Introduced by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
Int. No. 176
 
By Council Members Leffler, Foster, Espada and Linares; also Council Members McCaffrey and Michels.
 
 
A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to reporting requirements pursuant to the community right-to-know law.
 
 
Be it enacted by the Council as follows:
 
 
         Section one.  Subdivision a of section 24-715 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended to read as follows:
         §24-715  Annual Report. (a) The commissioner shall annually review the facility inventory forms and material safety data sheets filed with the department pursuant to this chapter and citywide facility inventory data. Upon making this annual review, the commissioner shall forward a report to the mayor and the council no later than october first of each year[, beginning in nineteen hundred eighty-nine]. Such annual report shall, at a minimum, provide the following information: the number of facilities for which facility inventory forms have been filed pursuant to this chapter; the number of complaints received; number of civilian complaints filed; the number of inspections performed pursuant to this chapter; the number of violations issued pursuant to this title and title six of this chapter; the number of orders issued by the commissioner pursuant to subdivision a of section 24-608 of this code and the nature of such orders; the number of civil actions and administrative proceedings commenced under this chapter and chapter six of this title and the dispositions thereof; the number of incidents in which the department participated in response measures undertaken in connection with hazardous substances; the number of releases of hazardous substances reported to, or otherwise documented by the department; the number of emergency response personnel in each city agency which performs functions in connection with emergencies involving hazardous substances; and the average response time and cost of each member of the city's emergency response personnel.
         §2. This local law shall take effect immediately upon its enactment into law.
 
         Referred to the Committee on Environmental Protection.
 
 
 
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