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This bill would require the Department of Transportation, or another agency designated by the Mayor, to develop a transportation plan for public travel, including ferry service, to and from Hart Island. The agency would have to consider factors such as changing conditions and future uses of Hart Island. The agency would have to submit a report on their plan within one year of the bill’s effective date.

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Int. No. 909-B

 

By Council Members Rodriguez, Holden, Lancman, Gibson, Constantinides, Adams, Kallos, Ampry-Samuel, Ayala, Richards and Rosenthal

 

A Local Law in relation to the establishment of a Hart island public travel plan

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Hart island public travel plan. a. The department of parks and recreation or such other agency or office designated by the mayor shall consult with the department of transportation to develop a plan to provide or ensure the availability of public travel, including ferry service, to and from Hart island. In developing such plan, the department of parks and recreation or such other designated agency or office shall consider establishing multiple departure locations and shall consider potential changes relating to Hart island including significant changes in demand for travel to and from such island, prospective uses of such island, current and prospective conditions and development on such island and requirements for public access to such island.

b. No later than one year after the effective date of this local law, the department of parks and recreation or such other agency or office shall submit to the speaker of the council and mayor and post on its website a report detailing the plan required by subdivision a of section one of this local law and the reasons that such plan was chosen.

§ 2. This local law takes effect on the date the transfer of control of Hart island to the department of parks and recreation, as required by section 21-110 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as amended by a local law of the city of New York for the year 2019, in relation to a transfer of control over Hart island from the department of corrections to the department of parks and recreation, and to provide for the repeal of section 9-103 of the administrative code of the city of New York, relating to the segregation of prisoners on Hart island, as proposed in introduction number 906-A for the year 2019, takes effect, and is deemed repealed upon submission of the report required by subdivision b of section one of this local law.

 

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