NYC Council Introduction 990

intro.nyc/0990-2024 2024-2025 Legislative Session
Establishing a decorative manhole cover program.
Status: Committee Committee on Environmental Protection, Resiliency and Waterfronts
Sponsored by Julie Menin
Introduced: July 18, 2024

This bill would require the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) to establish a decorative manhole cover program. Members of the public would be able to submit manhole cover designs, and DEP, in consultation with the Art Commission, would select no less than 10 designs each year. Decorative manhole covers would be required to make up no less than 10% of manhole covers installed by DEP each year for the next 5 fiscal years.