Legislation Details

File #: Int 0305-2010    Version: * Name: Requiring signs indicating the locations of abandoned infant protection act drop-off points.
Type: Introduction Status: Filed
Committee: Committee on General Welfare
On agenda: 7/29/2010
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring signs indicating the locations of abandoned infant protection act drop-off points.
Sponsors: G. Oliver Koppell, Julissa Ferreras-Copeland, Lewis A. Fidler, James F. Gennaro, Robert Jackson, Letitia James, James Sanders, Jr., Jumaane D. Williams, Jessica S. Lappin, Michael C. Nelson, Fernando Cabrera
Council Member Sponsors: 11
Date Ver.Prime SponsorAction ByActionResultAction DetailsMeeting DetailsMultimedia
12/31/2013*G. Oliver Koppell City Council Filed (End of Session)  Action details Meeting details Not available
7/29/2010*G. Oliver Koppell City Council Referred to Comm by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
7/29/2010*G. Oliver Koppell City Council Introduced by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
Int. No. 305
 
By Council Members Koppell, Ferreras, Fidler, Gennaro, Jackson, James, Sanders Jr., Williams, Lappin, Nelson and Cabrera
 
 
A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring signs indicating the locations of abandoned infant protection act drop-off points.
 
 
Be it enacted by the Council as follows:
 
Section 1. Chapter one of title 19 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 19-177.1 to read as follows:
§ 19-177.1  Signs indicating infant drop-off locations.  a.  For the purposes of this section, the following terms shall be defined as follows:
1.      "Child" shall have the same meaning as set forth in the abandoned infant protection act.
2.      "Abandoned Infant Protection Act" shall mean the New York state abandoned infant protection act, as codified by sections 260.03 and 260.15(2) of the penal law.  
b.      The department shall establish, control, install and maintain signs indicating any location designated as a suitable location to leave a child pursuant to the abandoned infant protection act which locations, at a minimum, shall include all hospitals, police stations and fire stations.
c. At all hospitals, police stations and fire stations, the department shall establish, control, install and maintain signs in an area that is at or in close proximity to the front entrance of each facility and in the case of hospitals at an area that is at or in close proximity to the entrance to the emergency room or  emergency department, if any.
§2.      This local law shall take effect one hundred and twenty days after its enactment.
 
 
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