Legislation Details

File #: Int 0269-1998    Version: * Name: Vendors, Restrictions
Type: Introduction Status: Filed
Committee: Committee on Transportation
On agenda: 4/8/1998
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to restrictions on general vendors and food vendors.
Sponsors: Andrew S. Eristoff, Helen M. Marshall, Kathryn E. Freed, Martin J. Golden
Council Member Sponsors: 4
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12/31/2001*Andrew S. Eristoff City Council Filed (End of Session)  Action details Meeting details Not available
5/4/1998*Andrew S. Eristoff Legislative Documents Unit Printed Item Laid on Desk  Action details Meeting details Not available
4/8/1998*Andrew S. Eristoff City Council Referred to Comm by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
4/8/1998*Andrew S. Eristoff City Council Introduced by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available

Int. No. 269

 

By Council Members Eristoff, Marshall, Freed and Golden.

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to restrictions on general vendors and food vendors.

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

                         Section 1. Subdivision d of section 17-315 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended to read as follows:

                         d.  No vending pushcart, stand or goods shall be located against display windows or fixed location businesses, nor shall they be within twenty feet from a sidewalk cafe or from an entranceway to any building, store, theatre, movie house, sports arena or other place of public assembly.

                         §2.  Subdivision e of section 17-315 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended to read as follows:

                         e.  No food vendor shall vend within any bus stop or taxi stand, within ten feet of any driveway, any subway entrance or exit, any entrance or exit to buildings which are exclusively residential at street level, [or] any crosswalk at any intersection, or any corner.  For purposes of this subdivision, ten feet from any corner shall be measured from a point where the property line on the nearest intersecting block face, when extended, meets the curb.

                         §3.  Section 17-315 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new subdivision g to read as follows:

                         g.  No food vendor shall vend within five feet from (a) bus shelters, (b) newsstands, (c) public telephones or (d) disabled access ramps.

                         §4.  Subdivision e of section 20-465 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended to read as follows:

                         e.  No general vendor shall vend within any bus stop or taxi stand, or within ten feet of any driveway, any subway entrance or exit, any crosswalk at any intersection, or any corner.  For purposes of this subdivision, ten feet from any corner shall be measured from the point where the property line on the nearest intersecting block face, when extended, meets the curb.

                         §5.  This local law shall take effect immediately.

 

   

 

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