Legislation Details

File #: Int 0635-1999    Version: * Name: Health Emergencies, Prompt Notification
Type: Introduction Status: Filed
Committee: Committee on Health
On agenda: 9/29/1999
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring the department of health to provide prompt notice to public officials concerning health emergencies.
Sponsors: Kenneth K. Fisher, Una Clarke, Stephen DiBrienza, Pedro G. Espada, Lloyd Henry, Karen Koslowitz, Margarita Lopez, Michael C. Nelson, Bill Perkins, Angel Rodriguez, (by request of the Brooklyn Borough President), Adolfo Carrion, June M. Eisland, Howard L. Lasher, Sheldon S. Leffler, Helen M. Marshall, Stanley E. Michels, Jerome X. O'Donovan, Mary Pinkett, Morton Povman, Madeline T. Provenzano, Jose Rivera, Thomas White
Council Member Sponsors: 23
Date Ver.Prime SponsorAction ByActionResultAction DetailsMeeting DetailsMultimedia
12/31/2001*Kenneth K. Fisher City Council Filed (End of Session)  Action details Meeting details Not available
9/29/1999*Kenneth K. Fisher Legislative Documents Unit Printed Item Laid on Desk  Action details Meeting details Not available
9/29/1999*Kenneth K. Fisher City Council Referred to Comm by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
9/29/1999*Kenneth K. Fisher City Council Introduced by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available

Int. No. 635

 

By Council Members Fisher, Clarke, DiBrienza, Espada, Henry, Koslowitz, Lopez, Nelson, Perkins and Rodriguez (by request of the Brooklyn Borough President); also Council Members Carrion, Eisland, Lasher, Leffler, Marshall, Michels, O'Donovan, Pinkett, Povman, Provenzano, Rivera and White.

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring the department of health to provide prompt notice to public officials concerning health emergencies.

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Subdivision a of section 17-104 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new paragraph 4 to read as follows:

4.  To provide prompt written notice to the affected borough presidents, council members and community boards of any action to be taken by the department concerning any public health emergency or public health alert within the city.

§ 2.                     This local law shall take effect immediately.

 

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