Int. No. 638
By Council Member Eugene
Title
A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to providing additional time to answer and/or pay any outstanding summonses, fines, or penalties for food and general vendor violations if such outstanding summonses, fines, or penalties are preventing the renewal of a food or general vendor license or permit
Body
Be it enacted by the Council as follows:
Section 1. Paragraph 2 of subdivision a of section 17-317 of title 17 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended to read as follows:
2. the applicant, licensee, permittee, its officers, directors, shareholders, members, managers or employees have been found guilty of four or more violations of this subchapter or any rules promulgated pursuant thereto within a two-year period or have been found guilty of a violation of the provisions of part fourteen of the state sanitary code or of the New York city health code, or the applicant, licensee, permittee, its officers, directors, shareholders, members, managers, or employees have pending any unanswered summonses or unsatisfied fines or penalties for violation of this subchapter or any rules promulgated pursuant thereto. Notwithstanding the aforementioned, the commissioner may renew a food vendor license or permit if, before such license or permit expires, a licensee or permittee, or its officers, directors, shareholders, members, managers or employees, submits a request in writing to the commissioner for additional time to answer any unanswered summonses for violation of this subchapter or the regulations promulgated thereto, or to pay the total dollar amount of any unsatisfied fine or penalty for violation of this subchapter or any rules promulgated pursuant thereto and: (i) answers any unanswered summonses for violation of this subchapter or any rules promulgated pursuant thereto within thirty days of the expiration date of the license o...
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