The New York City Council - File #: Int 0471-2018

• File #: Int 0471-2018
• Version: *
• Name: Prohibiting obstructing signs on sidewalks, flagging and curbstone whether or not abutting the offending property.
• Type: Introduction
• Status: Committee
• File created: 2/14/2018
• In control: Committee on Sanitation and Solid Waste Management
• On agenda: 2/14/2018
• Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to prohibiting obstructions or nuisances in or upon sidewalks, flagging or curbstones, streets and medians of streets and establishing a rebuttable presumption regarding responsibility for the placement of signs constituting such obstructions or nuisances
• Sponsors: Daniel Dromm , Robert F. Holden
• Indexes: Oversight

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
2/14/2018	*	City Council	Referred to Comm by Council
2/9/2018	*	City Council	Introduced by Council

Int. No. 471

By Council Members Dromm and Holden

Title
A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to prohibiting obstructions or nuisances in or upon sidewalks, flagging or curbstones, streets and medians of streets and establishing a rebuttable presumption regarding responsibility for the placement of signs constituting such obstructions or nuisances
Body

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:
Section 1. Paragraph a of subdivision 2 of section 16-118 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended to read as follows:
(a) Every owner, lessee, tenant, occupant or person in charge of any building or premises shall keep and cause to be kept the sidewalk, flagging and curbstone abutting said building or premises free from obstruction and nuisances of every kind, and shall keep said sidewalks, flagging, curbstones, and air shafts, areaways, backyards, courts and alleys free from garbage, refuse, rubbish, litter, debris and other offensive material. Such persons shall also remove garbage, refuse, rubbish, litter, debris and other offensive material between the curbstone abutting the building or premises and the roadway area extending one and one-half feet from the curbstone into the street on which the building or premises front. Such persons shall not, however, be responsible for cleaning the garbage, refuse, rubbish, litter, debris and other offensive material [which] that accumulates at catch basins located within the one and one-half foot distance from the curbstone into the street.
? 2. Subdivision 2 of section 16-118 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding three new paragraphs c, d and e to read as follows:
(c) No person shall place or cause to be placed an obstruction or nuisance of any kind anywhere in or upon any sidewalk, flagging or curbstone, street or median of a street. For purposes of this subdivision, the term "median" shall mean t...