File #: Int 1011-2024    Version: * Name: Requiring the commissioner of information technology and telecommunication to report on complaints received regarding residential space used as a business.
Type: Introduction Status: Committee
Committee: Committee on Technology
On agenda: 8/15/2024
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law in relation to requiring the commissioner of information technology and telecommunication to report on complaints received regarding residential space used as a business
Sponsors: Sandra Ung
Council Member Sponsors: 1
Summary: This bill would require the Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications to submit four quarterly reports to the Mayor and the Speaker of the Council on the number of complaints received by the 311 Customer Service Center about residential spaces used as businesses. The report would include the number of complaints disaggregated by the Council district and by a description of the issue. It would also include the status of each complaint.
Indexes: Report Required
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 1011, 2. Int. No. 1011, 3. August 15, 2024 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 4. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 8-15-24

Int. No. 1011

 

By Council Member Ung

 

A Local Law in relation to requiring the commissioner of information technology and telecommunication to report on complaints received regarding residential space used as a business

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Residential space used as a business reporting. a. For purposes of this section, the term “residential space used as a business” means a business operating in a residential space that is operating in violation of the New York city zoning resolution.

b. Beginning 90 days after the effective date of this local law, and quarterly thereafter for a total of 4 quarterly reports, the commissioner of information technology and telecommunications shall submit to the mayor and the speaker of the council a report on all complaints relating to residential space used as a business received in the preceding 90 days by the 311 customer service center, including but not limited to by phone, through the 311 website, and through the 311 mobile device platform. Such report shall include:

1. The total number of such complaints received;

2. The total number of such complaints received, disaggregated by the council district in which the residential space used as a business that is the subject of the complaint is located; 

3. The total number of such complaints received, disaggregated by the description provided in the complaint; and

4. The status of each such complaint received.

§ 2. This local law takes effect immediately.

 

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LS #17083

7/16/24