File #: Int 0727-2022    Version: * Name: Requiring the mayor’s office on ending domestic and gender-based violence to operate family justice centers 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and to conduct a public campaign to inform the community of this change.
Type: Introduction Status: Filed (End of Session)
Committee: Committee on Women and Gender Equity
On agenda: 9/29/2022
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring the mayor's office on ending domestic and gender-based violence to operate family justice centers 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and to conduct a public campaign to inform the community of this change
Sponsors: Julie Menin, Amanda Farías, Farah N. Louis, Gale A. Brewer, Lincoln Restler, Crystal Hudson, Sandra Ung, Shaun Abreu, Shekar Krishnan, Rita C. Joseph, Alexa Avilés, Kristin Richardson Jordan, Marjorie Velázquez, Christopher Marte
Council Member Sponsors: 14
Summary: This bill would require the Mayor’s Office on Ending Domestic and Gender-Based Violence to operate NYC Family Justice Centers 24 hours a day every day of the week and to inform the public of this change through a multilingual public awareness campaign.
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 727, 2. Int. No. 727, 3. September 29, 2022 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 4. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 9-29-22, 5. Minutes of the Stated Meeting - September 29, 2022

Int. No. 727

 

By Council Members Menin, Farías, Louis, Brewer, Restler, Hudson, Ung, Abreu, Krishnan, Joseph, Avilés, Richardson Jordan, Velázquez and Marte

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring the mayor’s office on ending domestic and gender-based violence to operate family justice centers 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and to conduct a public campaign to inform the community of this change

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Section 3-180 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding, in appropriate alphabetical order, a definition of “director” to read as follows:

Director. The term “director” means the director of the office to end domestic and gender-based violence.

§ 2. Subchapter 8 of chapter 1 of title 3 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 3-185 to read as follows:

§ 3-185 Family justice center operations. The director shall mandate that family justice centers operate 24 hours a day seven days a week.

§ 3. The director of the office to end domestic and gender-based violence shall conduct a public awareness campaign to inform the public of the change in operations schedule required by this local law. Such campaign shall include creating culturally appropriate written materials, including, but not limited to, pamphlets, posters and flyers, in the designated citywide language as defined in section 23-1101 of the administrative code of the city of New York.

§ 3. This local law takes effect 90 days after it becomes law.

 

 

 

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