File #: Int 0498-2024    Version: * Name: Requiring the department of sanitation to collect organic waste from community gardens.
Type: Introduction Status: Laid Over in Committee
Committee: Committee on Sanitation and Solid Waste Management
On agenda: 3/7/2024
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 sanitation to collect organic waste from community gardens
Sponsors: Shaun Abreu, Shahana K. Hanif, James F. Gennaro, Sandy Nurse, Kamillah Hanks, Sandra Ung, Christopher Marte, Lynn C. Schulman, Lincoln Restler, Diana I. Ayala, Shekar Krishnan, Tiffany Cabán, Alexa Avilés, Crystal Hudson, Farah N. Louis
Council Member Sponsors: 15
Summary: This bill would require the Department of Sanitation (DSNY) to collect organic waste from community gardens that request, by an online application, such organic waste collection.
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 498, 2. Int. No. 498, 3. March 7, 2024 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 4. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 3-7-24, 5. Minutes of the Stated Meeting - March 7, 2024, 6. Committee Report 11/20/24, 7. Hearing Transcript 11/20/24

Int. No. 498

 

By Council Members Abreu, Hanif, Gennaro, Nurse, Hanks, Ung, Marte, Schulman, Restler, Ayala, Krishnan, Cabán, Avilés, Hudson and Louis

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring the department of sanitation to collect organic waste from community gardens

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:Section 1. Subchapter 2 of chapter 3 of title 16 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 16-308.1 to read as follows:

§ 16-308.1 Community garden organics collection. a. Definitions. For the purposes of this section, the following terms have the following meanings:

Community garden. The term “community garden” has the same meaning as set forth in section 25-116.

Organic waste. The term “organic waste” has the same meaning as set forth in section 16-303.

b. No later than April 15, 2023, the department shall establish an online application for community gardens to request organic waste collection by the department.  Such application shall: (1) be posted on the department’s website; (2) be available in all designated citywide languages, as defined in section 23-1101; (3) be submitted by the owner or operator of the community garden, or such other person as designated by the department; and (4) allow a community garden to request weekly, biweekly or monthly organic waste collection.

c. No later than July 15, 2023, the department shall begin collecting organic waste from community gardens that submitted a request pursuant to subdivision b of this section.

§ 2. This local law takes effect immediately.

 

Session 13

LS #10224

1/18/2024

 

 

Session 12

JW/JSA

LS #10224

11/3/2022