NYC Administrative Code

§ 16-117 — Rules and regulations governing conveyance of rubbish, waste or offensive material through the streets.

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What is NYC AC § 16-117?

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This section empowers the commissioner to establish rules governing the removal and transportation of rubbish, waste, and other offensive materials on city streets and public places. The rules require approval from the board of estimate and are enforced similarly to local laws. Applies to entities involved in waste conveyance in New York City.

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§ 16-117 Rules and regulations governing conveyance of rubbish, waste or offensive material through the streets.

AC § 16-117

The commissioner shall have power to adopt rules and regulations: 1. Controlling persons and their servants, agents and employees and the vehicles of each engaged in removing, disposing of, conveying or transporting upon the streets, public places or bridges, or over the ferries in the city, manure, swill, ashes, street sweepings, bones, garbage, night soil, offal, fat, hides, hoofs or entrails, or other refuse parts of slaughtered animals, refuse, rubbish, bodies of dead animals, or any other offensive or noxious material, paper stock, or trade waste; 2. Rules and regulations adopted by the commissioner pursuant to this section shall be submitted to the board of estimate and, when approved by such board, shall be filed with the city clerk and published in like manner as prescribed by section eleven hundred five of the charter and shall be enforced in the same manner and to the same extent as local laws.

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