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File #: Int 0210-2018    Version: Name: Certain sidewalk repairs.
Type: Introduction Status: Enacted
File created: 1/31/2018 In control: Committee on Transportation
On agenda: 1/31/2018 Final action: 6/23/2018
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to certain sidewalk repairs
Sponsors: Steven Matteo, Justin L. Brannan, Kalman Yeger , Ben Kallos, Ydanis A. Rodriguez, Costa G. Constantinides, Deborah L. Rose, Peter A. Koo, Stephen T. Levin
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 210-B, 2. Summary of Int. No. 210-A, 3. Summary of Int. No. 210, 4. Int. No. 210, 5. January 31, 2018 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 6. Proposed Int. No. 210-A - 3/20/18, 7. Committee Report 4/10/18, 8. Hearing Testimony 4/10/18, 9. Hearing Transcript 4/10/18, 10. Proposed Int. No. 210-B - 5/16/18, 11. Committee Report 5/22/18, 12. Hearing Transcript 5/22/18, 13. May 23, 2018 - Stated Meeting Agenda with Links to Files, 14. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 5-23-18, 15. Minutes of the Stated Meeting - May 23, 2018, 16. Int. No. 210-B (FINAL), 17. Fiscal Impact Statement, 18. Legislative Documents - Letter to the Mayor, 19. Local Law 120
Int. No. 210-B

By Council Members Matteo, Brannan, Yeger, Kallos, Rodriguez, Constantinides, Rose, Koo and Levin

Title
A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to certain sidewalk repairs
Body

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

Section 1. Subdivisions c and e of section 19-152 of the administrative code of the city of New York, the first sentence of subdivision c as amended by local law number 64 for the year 1995, is amended to read as follows:
c. Whenever the department shall determine that a sidewalk flag should be installed, constructed, reconstructed, or repaved, or that a vacant lot should be fenced, or a sunken lot filled or a raised lot cut down, it may order the owner of the property abutting on such sidewalk flag or the owner of such vacant, sunken or raised lot by issuing a violation order to perform such work. Such order shall provide a detailed explanation of the inspection and the sidewalk defects according to sidewalk flags including a detailed diagram of the property and defects by type. The order shall also inform the owner of the existence of the borough offices within the department together with an explanation of the procedures utilized by the borough office as provided for in paragraph eighteen of subdivision a of section twenty-nine hundred three of the New York city charter as well as a complaint and appeal process, including the right to request a reinspection and then the right to appeal by filing a notice of claim with the office of the comptroller of the city of New York and thereafter a petition for appeal and commence a proceeding to review and/or correct the notice of account and/or the quality of the work performed under the direction of or by the department as provided herein and the procedures as to how to appeal by filing a notice of claim with the office of the comptroller of the city of New York and how to file a petition and commence a proceeding ...

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