File #: Int 0022-2024    Version: * Name: Vending on bridges.
Type: Introduction Status: Laid Over in Committee
Committee: Committee on Consumer and Worker Protection
On agenda: 2/8/2024
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to vending on bridges
Sponsors: Gale A. Brewer, Amanda Farías, Julie Won
Council Member Sponsors: 3
Summary: This bill would prohibit general vending and mobile food vending on a bridge approach. It would restrict all general vending and mobile food vending on bridges to elevated pedestrian walkways that have at least a sixteen-foot clear pedestrian path. It would prohibit vending within 20 feet of another pushcart operating on a bridge.
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 22, 2. Int. No. 22, 3. Hearing Testimony 12/13/23, 4. Committee Report 1/31/24, 5. Hearing Testimony 1/31/24, 6. Hearing Transcript 1/31/24, 7. February 8, 2024 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 8. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 2-8-24

Preconsidered Int. No. 22

 

By Council Members Brewer, Farías and Won

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to vending on bridges

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Section 17-315 of the administrative code of the city of the New York is amended by adding new subdivisions n, o and p to read as follows:

n. No food vendor shall vend on any elevated pedestrian walkway or bicycle lane on a bridge approach.

o. No pushcart shall be placed on any elevated pedestrian walkway on a bridge unless said elevated pedestrian walkway has at least a sixteen foot clear pedestrian path to be measured from one side of the walkway to any obstruction in or on the walkway, or if there are no obstructions to the other side of the walkway, such measurement shall not include bicycle lanes.

p. No vending pushcart operating on any elevated pedestrian walkway on a bridge shall be within 20 feet of another vending pushcart operating on such elevated pedestrian walkway on a bridge.

§ 2. Section 20-465 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding new subdivisions s, t and u to read as follows:

s. No general vendor shall vend on any elevated pedestrian walkway or bicycle lane on a bridge approach.

t. No pushcart shall be placed on any elevated pedestrian walkway on a bridge unless said elevated pedestrian walkway has at least a sixteen foot clear pedestrian path to be measured from one side of the walkway to any obstruction in or on the walkway, or if there are no obstructions to the other side of the walkway, such measurement shall not include bicycle lanes.

u. No vending pushcart operating on any elevated pedestrian walkway on a bridge shall be within 20 feet of another vending pushcart operating on such elevated pedestrian walkway on a bridge.

§ 3. This local law takes effect 30 days after it becomes law.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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