Int. No. 704
By Council Members Van Bramer and Constantinides
Title
A Local Law to amend the New York city charter and the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring the posting of current and planned water supply outages to the city's website and to the website of the department of environmental protection
Body
Be it enacted by the Council as follows:
Section 1. Subchapter 4 of chapter 3 of title 24 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 24-367 to read as follows:
? 24-367 Online notification of water outages. a. The department shall provide public notice on its website, both written and through the interactive map created by the department of information technology and telecommunications pursuant to charter section 1072, of the following information by city block: current water outages and planned or scheduled water outages. All notices shall display, to the extent possible, a start and estimated end time for the water outage.
b. Updates. The information provided under subdivision a shall be updated as often as practicable but not less than daily.
c. Exclusions. These notice requirements do not apply when water outages are not caused by, or at the request of, the department.
? 2. Subdivision q of section 1072 of the New York city charter, as amended by local law number 39 for the year 2013, is amended to read as follows:
q. to provide to the public at no charge on the city's website an interactive map, updated as often as practicable and necessary but not less than once per week, displaying the following:
1. Permitted and approved street closures that do not allow for the passage of vehicular traffic on that street, including but not limited to closures for special events, crane operations and other construction work, film shoots and paving operations; [and]
2. Parking regulations. The information related to paragraph (...
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