Legislation Details

File #: Int 0197-1998    Version: * Name: Building Construction, Protection
Type: Introduction Status: Filed
Committee: Committee on Housing and Buildings
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 securing protection of buildings undergoing construction.
Sponsors: Walter L. McCaffrey, Thomas K. Duane, Kathryn E. Freed, Karen Koslowitz, Guillermo Linares, Alphonse Stabile, Lucy Cruz, Sheldon S. Leffler, Stanley E. Michels, Jerome X. O'Donovan, Annette M. Robinson
Council Member Sponsors: 11
Date Ver.Prime SponsorAction ByActionResultAction DetailsMeeting DetailsMultimedia
12/31/2001*Walter L. McCaffrey City Council Filed (End of Session)  Action details Meeting details Not available
3/17/1998*Walter L. McCaffrey Legislative Documents Unit Printed Item Laid on Desk  Action details Meeting details Not available
2/26/1998*Walter L. McCaffrey City Council Referred to Comm by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
2/26/1998*Walter L. McCaffrey City Council Introduced by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
Int. No. 197
 
By Council Members McCaffrey, Duane, Freed, Koslowitz, Linares and Stabile; also Council Members Cruz, Leffler, Michels, O'Donovan and Robinson --  read and referred to the Committee on Housing and Buildings.
 
 
A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to securing protection of buildings undergoing construction.
 
 
Be it enacted by the Council as follows:
 
      Section 1.  Article twenty of chapter one of title 27 of the administrative code of the city of New York is hereby amended by adding a new section 27-204.1 to read as follows:
      §27-204.1  Securing buildings undergoing construction.
      All buildings undergoing new or substantially rehabilitated construction shall be secured adequately to protect such construction against vandalism.  Such measures may include but not be limited to, padlocked fencing, cinder blocks facing or a security guard.  Such requirement shall only apply if construction ceases for periods exceeding forty-eight hours and premises are to be left unattended.  The owner of such building or contractor of such project shall also notify the local police precinct that construction shall cease.
      §2.      This local law shall take effect thirty days after enactment.