Legislation Details

File #: Int 0154-2006    Version: * Name: Maintaining a registry of people who may need to be evacuated in the event of a citywide emergency
Type: Introduction Status: Filed
Committee: Committee on Public Safety
On agenda: 2/15/2006
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the New York city charter, in relation to maintaining a registry of people who may need to be evacuated in the event of a citywide emergency.
Sponsors: David Yassky, Vincent J. Gentile, G. Oliver Koppell, Rosie Mendez, Michael C. Nelson, David I. Weprin, John C. Liu
Council Member Sponsors: 7

Int. No. 154

 

By Council Members Yassky, Gentile, Koppell, Mendez, Nelson, Weprin and Liu

 

A Local Law to amend the New York city charter, in relation to maintaining a registry of people who may need to be evacuated in the event of a citywide emergency.

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Section 497 of the New York city charter is amended by renumbering existing subdivisions n and o as subdivisions o and p, respectively, and adding a new subdivision n to read as follows:

n.                      develop and maintain a registry of people who may need to be evacuated in the event of a citywide emergency, and a plan for conducting such an evacuation;

[n]                     o.                      perform all other functions previously performed by the former office of emergency management and the emergency control board; and

[o]                     p.                      promulgate such rules and regulations as may be necessary to implement the provisions of this chapter.

§2.                      This local law shall take effect 90 days after its enactment into law; provided, however, the commissioner shall implement subdivision n of section 497 of the charter, as added by section one of this local law, within one year of such effective date.

 

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