Int. No. 1588
By Council Members Borelli, Brannan, Ampry-Samuel, Holden, Cornegy and Ulrich
A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring the department of education to report elevator service outages
Be it enacted by the Council as follows:
Section 1. Title 21-A of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new chapter 27 to read as follows:
CHAPTER 27
ELEVATOR SERVICE OUTAGES
§ 21-998 Reporting on elevator service outages. a. Definitions. For the purposes of this section, the following terms have the following meanings:
Elevator. The term “elevator” means a hoisting and lowering mechanism equipped with a car or platform that moves in a substantially vertical direction, and that serves two or more floors of a building.
Elevator service outage. The term “elevator service outage” means any instance in which an elevator is out of service for 30 minutes or more.
School. The term “school” means a school of the city school district of the city of New York and includes a charter school.
b. Beginning on January 1, 2020, and every three months thereafter, on the first day of the month or within one week of such day, the department shall publicly post to its website a report consisting of all elevator service outages that occurred in its schools within the previous three month reporting period. Such report may be removed from the website no earlier than 15 years after the latest date in a reporting period.
c. The report required by subdivision b of this section shall include, at a minimum, the following information with respect to each elevator service outage:
1. The name of each school in which the outage occurred;
2. The location of each school in which the outage occurred;
3. The total number of elevators in the school building in which the outage occurred which are, if in service, available for use by the public;
4. Whether, when the outage first occurred, there were any other elevators in service and available for use by the public;
5. The duration, in minutes, of the outage;
6. The reasons for the outage, which shall include a description, where applicable, of the elevator part that was broken or in disrepair;
7. The school district in which the outage occurred;
8. The borough in which the outage occurred;
9. The council district in which the outage occurred; and
10. The community board district in which the outage occurred.
d. To ensure that the elevator service outage data provided pursuant to the requirement in subdivisions b and c of this section may be readily viewed in a user-friendly format, the department shall make available on their website, no later than one year from the date on which the local law that added this section became law, and thereafter updated concurrently with the data required to be publicly posted in accordance with subdivisions b and c of this section, a tool which displays the following information in a format that can be filtered by school year and by a custom time period chosen by the user, and which allows the user to compare such information by school within and across school districts, boroughs, council districts and community boards:
1. Total number of elevator service outages in each school;
2. Total number of instances in each school in which, when the elevator service outage first occurred, there were no other elevators alternatively available for use by the public; and
3. Average duration of elevator service outages in each school.
If the elevator service outage data for a complete school year cannot yet be posted on the department’s website, the department shall display the data required by this subdivision for the period consisting of the beginning of the most recent school year to the most recent date for which data is available.
§ 2. This local law takes effect immediately.
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5/14/19