File #: Int 0231-2024    Version: * Name: Increasing the frequency of parking structure inspections.
Type: Introduction Status: Committee
Committee: Committee on Housing and Buildings
On agenda: 2/28/2024
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to increasing the frequency of parking structure inspections
Sponsors: Crystal Hudson, Shahana K. Hanif, Farah N. Louis
Council Member Sponsors: 3
Summary: This bill would require that condition assessments of parking structures be conducted once every four years upon the completion of the current six-year inspection cycle on January 1, 2028, and would require that follow-up assessments be conducted within two years after a parking structure is deemed safe with repair or monitoring.
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 231, 2. Int. No. 231, 3. February 28, 2024 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 4. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 2-28-24, 5. Committee Report 4/25/24

Int. No. 231

 

By Council Members Hudson, Hanif and Louis

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to increasing the frequency of parking structure inspections

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Section 28-232.3 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as added by local law number 126 for the year 2021, is amended to read as follows:

§ 28-323.3 Condition assessment. A condition assessment of a parking structure shall be conducted at periodic intervals as set forth by rule of the commissioner, provided that such a condition assessment for each parking structure shall be conducted at least once [every six years] by January 1, 2028, and after each notification of an unsafe condition. After January 1, 2028, a condition assessment of each parking structure shall be conducted at least once every four years. All condition assessments shall be conducted on behalf of the building owner by an approved agency.

 

§ 2. Section 28-323.9.1 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as added by local law number 126 for the year 2021, is amended to read as follows:

§ 28-323.9.1 Safe with repair and/or engineering monitoring assessment requirements. When the results of an initial assessment indicate a parking structure is safe with repair and/or engineering monitoring, the parking structure shall be subsequently assessed no more than [three] two years from the date of the initial assessment and an amended report filed with the department.

 

§ 3. This local law takes effect immediately.

 

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