File #: Int 1370-2025    Version: * Name: Online submission of citizen’s complaints to enforce dumping prohibition laws.
Type: Introduction Status: Committee
Committee: Committee on Sanitation and Solid Waste Management
On agenda: 8/14/2025
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to the online submission of citizen's complaints to enforce dumping prohibition laws
Sponsors: Althea V. Stevens, Farah N. Louis, Justin L. Brannan, Lincoln Restler
Council Member Sponsors: 4
Summary: This bill would require the NYC Department of Sanitation to establish an online mechanism for citizens to submit information and sworn statements of potential illegal dumping of refuse onto any public or private space, when carried out during the course of commercial activity and through the use of a vehicle.
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 1370, 2. Int. No. 1370, 3. August 14, 2025 - Stated Meeting Agenda

Int. No. 1370

 

By Council Members Stevens, Louis, Brannan and Restler

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to the online submission of citizen’s complaints to enforce dumping prohibition laws

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Subdivision f of section 16-119 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new paragraph 4 to read as follows:

(4) The department shall implement and maintain the capability for any individual or individuals to furnish information about a potential violation of subdivision a of this section online, at the time such potential violation is taking place.

§ 2. This local law takes effect 180 days after it becomes law.

 

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LS # 18784

07/31/2025