File #: Int 0002-2026    Version: Name: Approval for emergency procurements and submission of contracts for audit.
Type: Introduction Status: Laid Over in Committee
Committee: Committee on Contracts
On agenda: 1/29/2026
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the New York city charter, in relation to approval for emergency procurements and submission of contracts for audit
Sponsors: Julie Menin, Phil Wong , Farah N. Louis, Linda Lee
Council Member Sponsors: 4
Summary: The charter requires prior approval by the Comptroller and Corporation Counsel of emergency procurements. This bill would limit the term of any emergency contract to 60 days, unless a prior approval is offered by the Comptroller and Corporation counsel for a longer period of time, provided that no such contract may have a term exceeding 270 days. Where the term of an emergency contract does exceed 60 days, the agency would be required to include an explanation of why such term is necessary to respond to an unforeseen danger to life, safety, property or a necessary service. The bill also requires emergency contracts to be submitted to the Comptroller for audit within 15 days of when the contract is executed, provided that failure to submit a contract within 15 days would not automatically void such contract.
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 2-A, 2. Summary of Int. No. 2, 3. Int. No. 2, 4. Committee Report 1/27/26, 5. Fiscal Impact Statement - City Council, 6. Hearing Transcript 1/27/26, 7. Proposed Int. No. 2-A - 2/6/26

Proposed Int. No. 2-A

 

By The Speaker (Council Member Menin) and Council Members Wong, Louis and Lee

 

A Local Law to amend the New York city charter, in relation to approval for emergency procurements and submission of contracts for audit

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Section 315 of the New York city charter, as amended by local law number 135 for the year 2013, is amended to read as follows:

§ 315. Emergency procurement. Notwithstanding the provisions of section three hundred twelve of this chapter, in the case of unforeseen danger to life, safety, property or a necessary service, an emergency procurement may be made with the prior approval of the comptroller and corporation counsel, provided that such procurement shall be made with such competition as is practicable under the circumstances, consistent with the provisions of section three hundred seventeen of this chapter. The term of any emergency contract awarded pursuant to this section shall not exceed sixty days, except with the prior approval of the comptroller and corporation counsel, provided that no such contract shall have a term exceeding two hundred seventy days. A written determination of the basis for the emergency[ and],  the selection of the contractor, and the term of the contract shall be placed in the agency contract file, and shall further be submitted to the council no later than fifteen days following contract award, and the determination or summary of such determination shall be included in the notice of the award of contract published pursuant to section three hundred twenty-five of this chapter. Where the term of a contract entered into pursuant to this section exceeds sixty days, the agency shall include, in the written determination required by this section, an explanation of why such term is necessary to respond to an unforeseen danger to life, safety, property or a necessary service. 

§ 2. Paragraph (1) of subdivision d of section 328 of the New York city charter, as added by a vote of the electors at a general election held on November 7, 1989, is amended to read as follows:

(1) an emergency contract awarded pursuant to section three hundred fifteen or to an accelerated procurement as defined under section three hundred twenty-six, provided that the agency shall, [as soon as is practicable,] within fifteen days of the execution of any such contract, submit [any] such contract to the comptroller for an audit of the procedures and basis for the determination of the need for an emergency or accelerated procurement, provided that failure by an agency to submit a contract within fifteen days of execution shall not affect the validity of such contract, or

§ 3. This local law takes effect 45 days after it becomes law, provided that section one of this local law shall apply only to an emergency procurement approved by the comptroller and the corporation counsel after such date.

 

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