Bill Text: NY S04703 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the sanitation department of the city of New York to provide owners, lessees or persons in charge of a premises at which a violation of the city solid waste disposal law is alleged to have occurred with a photograph of the materials, condition or situation constituting the violation.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO CITIES 1 [S04703 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S04703-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4703

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 13, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. SANDERS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Cities 1

        AN ACT to amend the administrative code of the  city  of  New  York,  in
          relation  to  requiring  the  sanitation department of the city of New
          York to provide owners, lessees or person in charge of a  premises  at
          which  a  violation of the city solid waste disposal law is alleged to
          have occurred with a photograph of the materials, condition  or  situ-
          ation constituting the violation

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Subdivision d of section 16-324 of the administrative  code
     2  of  the city of New York, as amended by local law number 142 of the city
     3  of New York for the year 2013, is amended to read as follows:
     4    d. Any notice of violation or notice of hearing for a violation issued
     5  to the owner, net lessee or person in charge of a premises or to a  food
     6  service  establishment,  mobile food commissary, store, or manufacturer,
     7  as those terms are defined in section 16-329 of this chapter,  at  which
     8  or  by whom a violation of this chapter or any rule promulgated pursuant
     9  thereto is alleged to have occurred or to have been committed  shall  be
    10  served  by  delivering a copy of the notice thereof at the address main-
    11  tained in the records of the  department  of  housing  preservation  and
    12  development,  the department of finance, or the department of health and
    13  mental hygiene. The notice of violation or  notice  of  hearing  may  be
    14  served  by  regular  mail  or  in  accordance  with section one thousand
    15  forty-nine-a of the charter or, if such notice is served  by  an  agency
    16  other than the department, in accordance with the rules of such agency.
    17  Any  notice  of violation or notice of hearing for a violation issued to
    18  the owner, net lessee or person in charge  of  a  premises  at  which  a
    19  violation  of  this  chapter or any rule promulgated pursuant thereto is
    20  alleged to have occurred shall be accompanied by a photograph, taken  by
    21  a  uniformed  member  of the department of sanitation, of the materials,

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00125-01-3
        S. 4703                             2

     1  condition or situation constituting the alleged violation.   A  copy  of
     2  the  photograph  shall be either: 1. printed with the ticket at the time
     3  the ticket is issued; or 2. accessible online at the city of New  York's
     4  website within forty-eight hours of the time of issuance of the ticket.
     5    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
     6  it shall have become a law.