File #: Int 1423-2025    Version: * Name: Requiring the department of transportation to provide an inventory of city-owned retaining walls under its jurisdiction.
Type: Introduction Status: Committee
Committee: Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
On agenda: 10/9/2025
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 transportation to provide an inventory of city-owned retaining walls under its jurisdiction
Sponsors: Althea V. Stevens, Chi A. Ossé, Julie Menin
Council Member Sponsors: 3
Summary: This bill would require the Department of Transportation (DOT) to provide on its website, no later than October 1, 2026, an inventory of all City-owned retaining walls under DOT’s jurisdiction. This inventory would include the location of each such retaining wall, as well as the date when maintenance or inspection of each such retaining wall was last performed. DOT would be required to update this inventory no less frequently than annually.
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 1423, 2. Int. No. 1423, 3. October 9, 2025 - Stated Meeting Agenda

Int. No. 1423

 

By Council Members Stevens, Ossé and Menin

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring the department of transportation to provide an inventory of city-owned retaining walls under its jurisdiction

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Subchapter 1 of chapter 1 of title 19 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 19-154.1 to read as follows:

§ 19-154.1 Retaining wall inventory. a. Definitions. As used in this section, the term “retaining wall” means a wall that resists lateral or other forces caused by soil, rock, water or other materials, thereby limiting lateral displacement and the movement of the supported materials. Basement walls and vault walls that are parts of buildings and underground structures, including but not limited to utility vault structures, tunnels, transit stations, and swimming pools, are not considered retaining walls.

b. No later than October 1, 2026, the department shall make available on its website an inventory of all city-owned retaining walls under the department’s jurisdiction. Such inventory shall include, but need not be limited to, the location of each such retaining wall as well as the date when maintenance or inspection of each such retaining wall was last performed. The department shall update such inventory no less frequently than annually.

§ 2. This local law takes effect immediately.

 

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