File #: Int 1250-2025    Version: Name: Publication of bylaws by borough boards, community boards, and advisory bodies.
Type: Introduction Status: Enacted (Mayor's Desk for Signature)
Committee: Committee on Governmental Operations, State & Federal Legislation
On agenda: 4/24/2025
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the New York city charter, in relation to publication of bylaws by borough boards, community boards, and advisory bodies
Sponsors: David M. Carr, Lincoln Restler, Farah N. Louis, Kamillah Hanks, Jennifer Gutiérrez, Chris Banks, Lynn C. Schulman, Crystal Hudson, Yusef Salaam, Eric Dinowitz, James F. Gennaro, Frank Morano, Public Advocate Jumaane Williams
Council Member Sponsors: 13
Summary: This bill would require every community board, borough board, or advisory body to publish, in a searchable, non-proprietary, and machine-readable format, its bylaws on its own or other city-owned websites. Every community board, borough board, or advisory body would also be required to update such published bylaws no later than two weeks after those entities make any changes to their bylaws.
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 1250-A, 2. Summary of Int. No. 1250, 3. Int. No. 1250, 4. April 24, 2025 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 5. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 4-24-25, 6. Committee Report 6/16/25, 7. Hearing Testimony 6/16/25, 8. Hearing Transcript 6/16/25, 9. Fiscal Impact Statement - City Council, 10. Fiscal Impact Statement - OMB, 11. Proposed Int. No. 1250-A - 11/5/25, 12. Committee Report 11/12/25, 13. Int. No. 1250-A - Fiscal Impact Statement - City Council, 14. Int. No. 1250-A - Fiscal Impact Statement - OMB, 15. November 12, 2025 - Stated Meeting Agenda
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11/12/2025ADavid M. Carr City Council Sent to Mayor by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
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11/12/2025*David M. Carr Committee on Governmental Operations, State & Federal Legislation Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
11/12/2025*David M. Carr Committee on Governmental Operations, State & Federal Legislation Amendment Proposed by Comm  Action details Meeting details Not available
11/12/2025*David M. Carr Committee on Governmental Operations, State & Federal Legislation Amended by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
11/12/2025ADavid M. Carr Committee on Governmental Operations, State & Federal Legislation Approved by CommitteePass Action details Meeting details Not available
6/16/2025*David M. Carr Committee on Governmental Operations, State & Federal Legislation Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
6/16/2025*David M. Carr Committee on Governmental Operations, State & Federal Legislation Laid Over by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
4/24/2025*David M. Carr City Council Referred to Comm by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
4/24/2025*David M. Carr City Council Introduced by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available

Int. No. 1250-A

 

By Council Members Carr, Restler, Louis, Hanks, Gutiérrez, Banks, Schulman, Hudson, Salaam, Dinowitz, Gennaro, Morano and the Public Advocate (Mr. Williams)

 

A Local Law to amend the New York city charter, in relation to publication of bylaws by borough boards, community boards, and advisory bodies

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

Section 1. Subdivision b of section 85 of the New York city charter is amended by adding a new paragraph 3-a to read as follows:

(3-a) Publish such by-laws to its website, or to the website of the borough president, in a searchable, non-proprietary, and machine-readable format, and publish updated by-laws no later than two weeks after the date on which such board adopts revisions to such by-laws;

§ 2. Chapter 47 of the New York city charter is amended to add a new section 1069.2 to read as follows:

§ 1069.2. By-laws of advisory bodies. a. Definitions. As used in this section the following terms have the following meanings:

Advisory body. The term “advisory body” means an entity: (i) established by local law or executive order to advise, study, or report on a subject; (ii) the body of which includes at least one member of the public; (iii) which holds one or more public meetings; and (iv) that is neither a community board nor a borough board.

By-laws. The term “by-laws” means the code or codes of rules adopted for the regulation or management of the affairs of an advisory body regardless of the name or names by which such rules are designated.

b. Publication of by-laws. Any advisory body that adopts by-laws shall publish such by-laws to its website, or to the city’s website, in a searchable, non-proprietary, and machine-readable format. Any advisory body that updates its by-laws shall publish updated by-laws no later than 2 weeks after the date on which such advisory body adopts revisions to such by-laws. An advisory body that has completed its functions pursuant to local law or executive order shall no longer be required to post or update its by-laws pursuant to this paragraph.

§ 3. Subdivision d of section 2800 of the New York city charter is amended by adding a new paragraph 7-a to read as follows:

(7-a) Publish such by-laws on its website in a searchable, non-proprietary, and machine-readable format, and publish updated by-laws no later than 2 weeks after the date on which such board adopts revisions to such by-laws;

§ 4. This local law takes effect immediately.

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