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: Enacted
Committee: Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
On agenda: 10/9/2025
Enactment date: 1/3/2026 Law number: 2026/013
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, Diana I. Ayala, Carmen N. De La Rosa, Farah N. Louis, Chris Banks, Eric Dinowitz, Jennifer Gutiérrez
Council Member Sponsors: 9
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 that are 10 feet high or greater. 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 annually.
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 1423-A, 2. Summary of Int. No. 1423, 3. Int. No. 1423, 4. October 9, 2025 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 5. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 10-9-25.pdf, 6. Committee Report 11/24/25, 7. Hearing Testimony 11/24/25, 8. Appearance Cards 11/24/25, 9. Hearing Transcript 11/24/25, 10. Fiscal Impact Statement - City Council, 11. Fiscal Impact Statement - OMB, 12. Proposed Int. No. 1423-A - 11/26/25, 13. Committee Report 12/4/24, 14. Hearing Transcript 12/4/25, 15. Committee Report - Stated Meeting, 16. December 4, 2025 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 17. Int. No. 1423-A (FINAL), 18. Int. No. 1423-A - Fiscal Impact Statement - City Council, 19. Int. No. 1423-A - Fiscal Impact Statement - OMB, 20. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 12-4-25
Date Ver.Prime SponsorAction ByActionResultAction DetailsMeeting DetailsMultimedia
1/5/2026AAlthea V. Stevens City Council Returned Unsigned by Mayor  Action details Meeting details Not available
1/3/2026AAlthea V. Stevens Administration City Charter Rule Adopted  Action details Meeting details Not available
12/4/2025AAlthea V. Stevens City Council Sent to Mayor by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
12/4/2025AAlthea V. Stevens City Council Approved by CouncilPass Action details Meeting details Not available
12/4/2025*Althea V. Stevens Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
12/4/2025*Althea V. Stevens Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Amendment Proposed by Comm  Action details Meeting details Not available
12/4/2025*Althea V. Stevens Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Amended by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
12/4/2025AAlthea V. Stevens Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Approved by CommitteePass Action details Meeting details Not available
11/24/2025*Althea V. Stevens Committee on Consumer and Worker Protection Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
11/24/2025*Althea V. Stevens Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
11/24/2025*Althea V. Stevens Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Laid Over by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
11/24/2025*Althea V. Stevens Committee on Consumer and Worker Protection Laid Over by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
10/9/2025*Althea V. Stevens City Council Referred to Comm by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
10/9/2025*Althea V. Stevens City Council Introduced by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available

Int. No. 1423-A

 

By Council Members Stevens, Ossé, Menin, Ayala, De La Rosa, Louis, Banks, Dinowitz and Gutiérrez

 

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 retaining wall as such term is defined in section 28-305.4.1 that is 10 feet high or greater, as measured from the ground immediately in front of the wall to the top of the wall stem, or wall step for stepped walls, including any parapets or fencing capable of retaining material.

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 and the date when maintenance or inspection of each such retaining wall was last performed. The department shall update such inventory annually.

§ 2. This local law takes effect immediately.

 

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