File #: Int 0589-2024    Version: * Name: Requiring that 311 allow persons to request snow and ice removal on pedestrian bridges and that those reports be routed to the appropriate agency.
Type: Introduction Status: Committee
Committee: Committee on Technology
On agenda: 3/7/2024
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring that 311 allow persons to request snow and ice removal on pedestrian bridges and that those reports be routed to the appropriate agency
Sponsors: Eric Dinowitz, Nantasha M. Williams, Shahana K. Hanif, James F. Gennaro, Julie Menin, Lincoln Restler, Crystal Hudson
Council Member Sponsors: 7
Summary: This bill would enable persons who access the 311 website, app or phone line to be able to request that snow and ice be cleared from pedestrian bridges. This bill would also ensure that the request goes to the appropriate agency that is in charge of snow removal.
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 589, 2. Int. No. 589, 3. March 7, 2024 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 4. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 3-7-24, 5. Committee Report 4/25/24, 6. Hearing Testimony 4/25/24, 7. Hearing Transcript 4/25/24, 8. Minutes of the Stated Meeting - March 7, 2024

Int. No. 589

 

By Council Members Dinowitz, Williams, Hanif, Gennaro, Menin, Restler and Hudson

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring that 311 allow persons to request snow and ice removal on pedestrian bridges and that those reports be routed to the appropriate agency

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Chapter 3 of title 23 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 23-311 to read as follows:

§ 23-311 Reporting snow and ice conditions on pedestrian bridges. The department of information technology and telecommunications shall create a mechanism for persons using the 311 app, 311 website, and 311 phone line to report snow and ice conditions on pedestrian bridges, and for such reports to be routed to the appropriate agency.

§ 2. This local law takes effect 120 days after it becomes law, except that the commissioner of information technology and telecommunications shall take all actions necessary for its implementation, including the promulgation of rules, prior to such effective date.

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LS #6975, 11136

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Session 12

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LS #6975, 11136

12/22/2022