The New York City Council - File #: Int 0946-2018

• File #: Int 0946-2018
• Version: B
• Name: Prohibiting on-call scheduling for utility safety employees and providing advance notice of work schedules to utility safety employees.
• Type: Introduction
• Status: Enacted
• File created: 5/23/2018
• In control: Committee on Transportation
• On agenda: 5/23/2018
• Final action: 7/18/2021
• Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to prohibiting on-call scheduling for utility safety employees and providing advance notice of work schedules to utility safety employees
• Sponsors: Brad S. Lander, Justin L. Brannan, Antonio Reynoso, Keith Powers , Carlos Menchaca, Mark Levine, Stephen T. Levin, Ben Kallos, Alan N. Maisel, Fernando Cabrera , Carlina Rivera , Helen K. Rosenthal, Diana I. Ayala, Vanessa L. Gibson, Barry S. Grodenchik, James G. Van Bramer, Laurie A. Cumbo, Bill Perkins, Margaret S. Chin, Alicka Ampry-Samuel , Rafael Salamanca, Jr., Adrienne E. Adams, Daniel Dromm , Public Advocate Jumaane Williams, Francisco P. Moya, Mark Treyger, Karen Koslowitz, Mathieu Eugene, Inez D. Barron, Deborah L. Rose, Ydanis A. Rodriguez, Farah N. Louis, Selvena N. Brooks-Powers
• Indexes: Agency Rule-making Required

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
7/19/2021	B	City Council	Returned Unsigned by Mayor
7/18/2021	B	Administration	City Charter Rule Adopted
6/17/2021	B	City Council	Sent to Mayor by Council
6/17/2021	B	City Council	Approved by Council	Pass
6/17/2021	*	Committee on Transportation	Hearing Held by Committee
6/17/2021	*	Committee on Transportation	Hearing Held by Committee
6/17/2021	*	Committee on Transportation	Amendment Proposed by Comm
6/17/2021	*	Committee on Transportation	Amendment Proposed by Comm
6/17/2021	*	Committee on Transportation	Amended by Committee
6/17/2021	*	Committee on Transportation	Amended by Committee
6/17/2021	B	Committee on Transportation	Approved by Committee	Pass
12/16/2019	*	Committee on Transportation	Hearing Held by Committee
12/16/2019	*	Committee on Transportation	Hearing Held by Committee
12/16/2019	*	Committee on Transportation	Amendment Proposed by Comm
12/16/2019	*	Committee on Transportation	Amendment Proposed by Comm
12/16/2019	*	Committee on Transportation	Laid Over by Committee
12/16/2019	*	Committee on Transportation	Laid Over by Committee
12/3/2019	A	City Council	Re-referred to Committee by Council
5/23/2018	*	City Council	Referred to Comm by Council
5/23/2018	*	City Council	Referred to Comm by Council
5/23/2018	*	City Council	Introduced by Council
5/23/2018	*	City Council	Introduced by Council

Int. No. 946-B

By Council Members Lander, Brannan, Reynoso, Powers, Menchaca, Levine, Levin, Kallos, Maisel, Cabrera, Rivera, Rosenthal, Ayala, Gibson, Grodenchik, Van Bramer, Cumbo, Perkins, Chin, Ampry-Samuel, Salamanca, Adams, Dromm, the Public Advocate (Mr. Williams), Moya, Treyger, Koslowitz, Eugene, Barron, Rose, Rodriguez, Louis and Brooks-Powers

Title
A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to prohibiting on-call scheduling for utility safety employees and providing advance notice of work schedules to utility safety employees
Body

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

Section 1. Section 20-1201 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as amended by local law 80 of 2020, is amended to add new definitions of "underground facilities," "utility safety employee" and "utility safety employer" in alphabetical order to read as follows:
Underground facilities. The term "underground facilities" means pipelines, conduits, ducts, cables, wires, manholes, vaults or other such facilities or their attachments, that have been installed underground to provide services or materials, including electricity, gas, water, steam liquid petroleum products, telephone communications, cable television, sewage removal or traffic control systems.
Utility safety employee. The term "utility safety employee" means any person who is employed by a utility safety employer to locate and mark underground facilities or inspect gas pipe fusions and joints.
Utility safety employer. The term "utility safety employer" means any person or entity that employs individuals to locate and mark underground facilities or inspect gas pipe fusions and joints. The term "utility safety employer" does not include (i) the United States government; (ii) the state of New York, including any office, department, independent agency, authority, institution, association, society or other body of the state including the legislature ...