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This bill would prohibit the charging of certain not-for-profit corporations for the collection of waste and recyclables.

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Int. No. 1108

 

By Council Members Greenfield, Cornegy and Cohen

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to the collection of waste and recyclables from not-for-profit corporations by the department of sanitation

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Section 16-114 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended to read as follows:

§ 16-114  Rates  for  collection  and  disposal. The commissioner may charge for the collection  and  disposal  of  ashes,  street  sweepings, garbage, refuse, rubbish,  dead animals, night soil and offal, and all wastes and recyclables, including trade waste from business, industrial, manufacturing, or other establishments conducted for profit, at rates established by the council by local law, upon recommendation of the  commissioner,  and   on  such  terms  and  conditions as the commissioner shall prescribe and subject to  rules  of  the  department  governing  such  collection and  disposal.  The commissioner shall not charge for collection or disposal of such materials from any property or portion of a property that is (1) utilized by a not-for-profit corporation, as defined in paragraph five of subdivision a of section one hundred two of the New York state not-for-profit corporation law, or a foreign corporation, as defined in paragraph seven of such subdivision, when that property or portion of a property is being utilized for a not-for-profit purpose or (2) utilized as a public library, museum, botanical garden, arboretum, memorial building, aquarium, zoological garden or similar public facility. 

§2. This local law takes effect immediately.

 

BJR

LS 1762

Int. 792-2012

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