S 6602: Requires the sanitation department of the city of New York to provide owners, lessees or persons in charge of a premises at which a violation of the city solid waste disposal law is alleged to have occurred with a photograph of the materials, condition or situation constituting the violation.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6602 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE March 18, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sen. SANDERS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Cities 1 AN ACT to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring the sanitation department of the city of New York to provide owners, lessees or person in charge of a premises at which a violation of the city solid waste disposal law is alleged to have occurred with a photograph of the materials, condition or situ- ation constituting the violation The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision d of section 16-324 of the administrative code 2 of the city of New York, as amended by local law number 142 of the city 3 of New York for the year 2013, is amended to read as follows: 4 d. Any notice of violation or notice of hearing for a violation issued 5 to the owner, net lessee or person in charge of a premises or to a food 6 service establishment, mobile food commissary, store, or manufacturer, 7 as those terms are defined in section 16-329 of this chapter, at which 8 or by whom a violation of this chapter or any rule promulgated pursuant 9 thereto is alleged to have occurred or to have been committed shall be 10 served by delivering a copy of the notice thereof at the address main- 11 tained in the records of the department of housing preservation and 12 development, the department of finance, or the department of health and 13 mental hygiene. The notice of violation or notice of hearing may be 14 served by regular mail or in accordance with section one thousand 15 forty-nine-a of the charter or, if such notice is served by an agency 16 other than the department, in accordance with the rules of such agency. 17 Any notice of violation or notice of hearing for a violation issued to 18 the owner, net lessee or person in charge of a premises at which a 19 violation of this chapter or any rule promulgated pursuant thereto is 20 alleged to have occurred shall be accompanied by a photograph, taken by 21 a uniformed member of the department of sanitation, of the materials, EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD01606-01-5 
 S. 6602 2 1 condition or situation constituting the alleged violation. A copy of 2 the photograph shall be either: 1. printed with the ticket at the time 3 the ticket is issued; or 2. accessible online at the city of New York's 4 website within forty-eight hours of the time of issuance of the ticket. 5 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after 6 it shall have become a law.