Legislation Details

File #: Int 2457-2021    Version: * Name: Requiring the department of sanitation to photograph, report and remove unlawful dumping on collection routes and reporting in relation thereto.
Type: Introduction Status: Filed (End of Session)
Committee: Committee on Sanitation and Solid Waste Management
On agenda: 11/23/2021
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 sanitation to photograph, report and remove unlawful dumping on collection routes and reporting in relation thereto
Sponsors: Adrienne E. Adams, Kalman Yeger
Council Member Sponsors: 2
Summary: This bill would require each Department of Sanitation (DSNY) collection truck to photograph and report any unlawful dumping, located on public property on its collection route, to the DSNY Commissioner who would ensure DSNY removes the unlawful dumping. It would also require DSNY to publish data on its website on each photographed and reported unlawful dumping, within 48 hours of completing a collection route, and to submit an annual report on such to the Mayor and the Speaker of the Council and post such report on the DSNY website.
Indexes: Agency Rule-making Required, Report Required
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 2457, 2. Int. No. 2457, 3. November 23, 2021 - Stated Meeting Agenda with Links to Files, 4. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 11-23-21, 5. Minutes of the Stated Meeting - November 23, 2021
Date Ver.Prime SponsorAction ByActionResultAction DetailsMeeting DetailsMultimedia
12/31/2021*Adrienne E. Adams City Council Filed (End of Session)  Action details Meeting details Not available
11/23/2021*Adrienne E. Adams City Council Referred to Comm by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
11/23/2021*Adrienne E. Adams City Council Introduced by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available

Int. No. 2457

 

By Council Members Adams and Yeger

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring the department of sanitation to photograph, report and remove unlawful dumping on collection routes and reporting in relation thereto

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

Section 1. Section 16-119 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new subdivision i to read as follows:

i. Photograph, report and remove unlawful dumping on collection routes. 1. Each department collection truck shall photograph any unlawful dumping that is located on public property on its collection route and report such unlawful dumping to the commissioner who shall ensure the department removes such unlawful dumping. The commissioner shall promulgate any rules necessary and appropriate to the administration of this paragraph.

2. No later than 48 hours after a department collection truck completes its collection route, the commissioner shall publish on the department’s website and update, as appropriate, information on each instance of unlawful dumping photographed and reported pursuant to paragraph 1 of this section. Such information shall include a table, disaggregated by community district, in which each separate row references a unique instance of unlawful dumping. Each such row shall include the following information about each unique instance of unlawful dumping, as well as any additional information the commissioner deems appropriate, set forth in separate columns:

(a) The date that a department collection truck photographed and reported such unlawful dumping;

(b) The location of such unlawful dumping;

(c) A brief description of such unlawful dumping; and

(d) Whether the department removed such unlawful dumping, and its date of removal, if applicable.

3. Beginning one year after the effective date of the local law that added this subdivision, and annually thereafter, the commissioner shall submit a report on the unique instances of unlawful dumping photographed and reported pursuant to paragraph 1 of this section, by month, to the mayor and the speaker of the council and shall post such report on the department’s website. Such annual report shall include the following information, as well as any additional information the commissioner deems appropriate, for each community district:

(a) The number of unique instances of unlawful dumping that department collection trucks photographed and reported;

(b) The number and percent of such instances of unlawful dumping that the commissioner removed; and

(c) The average amount of time that the commissioner took to remove such instances of unlawful dumping, after a department collection truck photographed and reported such.

§ 2. This local law takes effect 120 days after it becomes law, except that the commissioner

of sanitation shall take such measures as are necessary for the implementation of this local law, including the promulgation of rules, before such date.

 

 

 

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11/15/21