File #: Int 0852-2024    Version: * Name: Requiring towed vehicle storage facilities to provide 24 hour access
Type: Introduction Status: Committee
Committee: Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
On agenda: 4/18/2024
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring towed vehicle storage facilities to provide 24 hour access
Sponsors: Rafael Salamanca, Jr., Farah N. Louis, Gale A. Brewer
Council Member Sponsors: 3
Summary: This bill would require that storage facilities for towing be open 24 hours
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 852, 2. Int. No. 852, 3. April 18, 2024 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 4. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 4-18-24, 5. Minutes of the Stated Meeting - April 18, 2024

Int. No. 852

 

By Council Members Salamanca Jr., Louis and Brewer

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring towed vehicle storage facilities to provide 24 hour access

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1.  Chapter one of title fourteen of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 14-140.1 to read as follows:

§14-140.1 Redemption of Towed Vehicles. All storage facilities for towed vehicles operated by the department shall provide twenty-four hour access for redemption of vehicles stored in such facilities.

§2.  Section 20-508 of title 20 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended to read as follows:

§20-508  Storage facilities. Every licensee which stores vehicles shall do so only on premises which provide twenty-four hour access for redemption of such vehicles and meet such specifications as the commissioner shall establish by regulation for safeguarding property.

§2.  This local law shall take effect 60 days after its enactment into law.

 

 

 

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