A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to suspending alternate side parking regulations on the annual holiday of Tisha B'av.

Int. No. 259

By Council Members Greenfield, Chin, Koo, Levine, Richards and Levin

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to suspending alternate side parking regulations on the annual holiday of Tisha B’av.

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

Section 1. Subdivision a of section 19-163 of subchapter 2 of chapter 1 of title 19 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended to read as follows:

§ 19-163  Holiday suspensions of parking rules. a. All alternate side of the  street  parking  rules  shall  be  suspended  on  the  following  holidays:    Christmas,  Yom  Kippur, Rosh Hashanah, Ash Wednesday, Holy  Thursday, Good Friday, Ascension  Thursday,  Feast  of  the  Assumption,  Feast  of All Saints, Feast of the Immaculate Conception, first two days of Succoth, Shemini Atzareth, Simchas Torah, Shevuoth,  Purim,  Orthodox  Holy  Thursday,  Orthodox  Good  Friday,  first two and last two days of  Passover, the Muslim holidays of Eid  Ul-Fitr  and  Eid  Ul-Adha,  Asian  Lunar  New  Year,  the  Hindu festival of Diwali on the day that Lakshmi Puja is observed, on Tisha B’av, and all state and national holidays.

                     § 2. This local law shall take effect immediately.

GZ

Int. No. 1115/2013

LS 1162/2014

3/31/14