Int. No. 503
Introduced by Council Members DiBrienza, Malave-Dilan, and Marshall; also Council Members Fisher, Foster, Leffler, Pinkett and Rivera.
A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to creating population limits for shelters for adults.
Be it enacted by the Council as follows:
Section 1. Subdivision b of section 21-139 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended to read as follows:
b. No shelter for adults shall be operated with a census of more than two hundred persons. Notwithstanding such prohibition, any shelter with a census of greater than two hundred persons on June first, nineteen hundred ninety-eight may continue to [shelter the number of persons specified on the shelter's operating certificate as of that date as long as such shelter is operating in compliance with applicable, statutes, laws, rules and regulations] operate in excess of the abovementioned two hundred person limitation, and such shelter may continue to shelter the highest number of persons permitted, authorized, approved or otherwise allowed between June first, nineteen hundred ninety-eight and December seventeenth, nineteen hundred ninety-eight, by the state of New York office of temporary and disability assistance. Nothing in this section shall be construed to require any shelter with a census of greater than two hundred persons on the effective date of this local law to reduce its census below two hundred persons.
§2. This local law shall take effect immediately and shall be deemed to have been in full force and effect on December seventeenth, nineteen hundred ninety-eight.
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Note: Matter in italics is new; matter in brackets [ ] to be omitted.