This bill would require all electrical conductors located above ground throughout the City be placed underground.
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Int. No. 893
By Council Members Crowley, Barron, Koslowitz, Reynoso, Koo, Deutsch, Lancman, Vallone and Cornegy
A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to locating electrical conductors underground.
Be it enacted by the Council as follows:
Section 1. Chapter four of title 24 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 24-424 to read as follows:
§24-424 Underground electrical conductors. The commissioner of transportation shall notify the owners or operators of electrical conductors located above ground on any street within the counties of Bronx, Kings, Queens and Richmond that, where feasible all electrical conductors shall be placed underground within a certain time, sufficient for the proper construction of underground conduits or other channels in such street, to be fixed by such commissioner.
§2. This local law shall take effect ninety days after its enactment.
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