Projects
City Council Laws and Legislation:
- 1993 Local Law 1, which created an independent civilian review board
- The Spill Bill, the law mandating accidental releases of hazardous substances
(The Hazardous Substance Emergency Response Law) [1987 Local Law 42]
- The Right to Know Law, mandating the disclosure of toxic chemicals [1988
Local Law 26]
- The Law banning apartment house incinerators [1989 Local Law 39]
- The law regulating the disposal of medical waste [1988 Local Law 60; 1989
Local Laws 39 and 75]
- The landmark New York City Recycling Law [Local Law 19 of 1989]
- Alternative fuels vehicles purchasing Law [1991 Local Law 6]
- The Social Club law [1990 Local Law 23]
- The Law establishing an Anti-Graffiti Task Force [1991 Local Law 3]
- The Law empowering police officers to summons the illegal sale of graffiti tools
[1985 Local Law 34]
- Increase of the entry age limit for police officers to age 35 [1998 Local
Law 23]
- Mandating the Police Department to report their response times to crimes
[1991 Local Law 89]
- The merger of the EMS into the Fire Department [1996 Local Law 20 and MOU]
- The law saving most of the fire boxes and requiring all remaining boxes to be voice-activated
[1996 Local Law 35]
- Regulating the sale and possession of box cutters [1998 Local Law 22]
- Prohibiting the sale or transfer of handguns without a safety locking device
[1998 Local Law 21]
- Religious Vandalism Law [1986 Local Law 13]
- Illegal Posting Law [1985 Local Law 30]
- Establishes Rebuttable Presumption for Illegal Posting [1993 Local Law 111]
- Computers in Schools
- Regulate Noisy Power Tools [1996 Local Law 6]
- Licenses/Regulates booting companies [1997 Local Law 88; 1995 Local Law 24]
- Legislation to set water and sewer rates after the Council adopts the budget (passed Council, vetoed by Mayor)
[1994 Int. No. 72-A]
- Proposed clean water law
- In-place asbestos regulation [1987 Local Law 21]
- Solid waste reduction measures
- Local Law 19 regulations and implementation
Copies of original statements are available on request.
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