File #: Int 1227-2025    Version: * Name: Requiring the department of parks and recreation to publish tree maintenance prioritization ratings.
Type: Introduction Status: Committee
Committee: Committee on Parks and Recreation
On agenda: 3/26/2025
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring the department of parks and recreation to publish tree maintenance prioritization ratings
Sponsors: Nantasha M. Williams, Lynn C. Schulman, Farah N. Louis, Susan Zhuang, Mercedes Narcisse, Vickie Paladino
Council Member Sponsors: 6
Summary: This bill would require the Department of Parks and Recreation (Parks) to publish any current maintenance prioritization rating assigned by Parks to each tree under its jurisdiction and the reason for the rating on its interactive tree map website.
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 1227, 2. Int. No. 1227, 3. March 26, 2025 - Stated Meeting Agenda

Int. No. 1227

 

By Council Members Williams, Schulman, Louis, Zhuang, Narcisse and Paladino

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring the department of parks and recreation to publish tree maintenance prioritization ratings

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Paragraph 5 of subdivision c of section 18-157 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as added by local law number 20 for the year 2022, is amended to read as follows:

5. A regularly updated map on the website of the department that displays each covered tree that has been inspected, the result of such inspection [and], the action taken by the department in response to the result of such inspection, any current rating or ratings for the prioritization of maintenance of such tree assigned by the department to such tree, and the reason for such rating or ratings.   

§ 2. This local law takes effect 30 days after it becomes law.

 

DPM

LS #18485/18964

03/20/2025 12:49 PM