Legislation Details

File #: Int 0309-2010    Version: * Name: Requiring that the Missing in Attack on our Nation flag be flown over all public buildings during the month of September.
Type: Introduction Status: Filed
Committee: Committee on Governmental Operations
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 that the Missing in Attack on our Nation flag be flown over all public buildings during the month of September.
Sponsors: G. Oliver Koppell, Daniel J. Halloran III, Vincent J. Gentile, Letitia James, Michael C. Nelson, James Vacca, Fernando Cabrera , Peter A. Koo, James S. Oddo, Eric A. Ulrich
Council Member Sponsors: 10
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. 309
By Council Members Koppell, Halloran, Gentile, James, Nelson, Vacca, Cabrera, Koo, Oddo and Ulrich
 
 
A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring that the Missing in Attack on our Nation flag be flown over all public buildings during the month of September.
 
 
Be it enacted by the Council as follows:
 
            Section 1.  Section 3-102 of chapter 1 of title 3 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new paragraph b to read as follows:
      §3-102 Flags and decorations; city hall park. All authority to display flags or other decorations on, in or about the public buildings within the city hall park, is vested in the mayor, unless otherwise ordered by the council.
      a. A Prisoner of War/Missing in Action POW/(MIA) flag shall be flown over City Hall every day the American flag is flown until such time as all persons listed as missing in action, from any branch of  the  United States Armed Forces, and all persons from any branch of our armed forces who  are  prisoners  of  war, are accounted for by the United States Government.
      b. A Missing in Attack on our Nation MIA-OON flag shall be flown over City Hall, all city-owned buildings and, to the extent practicable, all facilities and offices leased or otherwise occupied for public use by a city agency every day the American flag is flown over such locations during the month of September in commemoration of the events of September 11, 2001.
      §2.  This local law shall take effect immediately upon enactment.
 
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