Simcha Felder

This bill would require the Department of Sanitation (“DSNY”), or other administering agency as designated by the mayor, to distribute official NYC waste bins to owners of eligible buildings. This bill would also require DSNY or the administering agency to establish and implement a program to reimburse owners of eligible buildings who purchased official NYC waste bins on or before June 1, 2027. Eligible buildings include those with 3 dwelling units where the building owner is enrolled in a New York STAR or Enhanced STAR tax benefit program. DSNY or the administering agency would be required to submit a report on the law’s implementation one month after the law’s expiration.

This bill would allow drivers to receive refunds for unused parking time purchased through parking application eWallets, and to transfer unused time from play-by-plate parking meters to another blockface with the same parking rate. Refunds or transfers would only be permitted if the unused time is worth more than the minimum purchase amount for the parking space, and the vehicle is not otherwise parked in violation of parking rules. The bill would also repeal the current ban on transferring unused parking time between blockfaces. Parking time purchased at pay-by-display parking meters, or parking application transactions not made through eWallets, would not be eligible for refunds or transfers.

This bill would prohibit the Department of Sanitation (“DSNY”) from imposing civil penalties on property owners for failure to remove snow or ice from abutting sidewalks until DSNY has completed the removal of snow or ice from streets under its jurisdiction and the Department of Transportation and the Department of Parks and Recreation have certified to the DSNY Commissioner that such agencies have completed snow and ice removals at infrastructure under their respective jurisdictions.

This bill would require the Department of Transportation to issue a report summarizing usage data for each bike share station and recommending relocation of the least used stations to higher demand areas.

Currently, senior citizens with annual incomes of $50,000 or less may qualify for an exemption from real property taxes to the extent of 50% of the assessed value of their homes. Acting upon authority granted to the City under a recent amendment of State law, this bill would expand tax relief to such senior citizen homeowners in the following income brackets: for homeowners with incomes equaling $48,000 or more but less than $49,000, 55 percent of the assessed home value would be exempt; for homeowners with incomes equaling $47,000 or more but less than $48,000, 60 percent of the assessed home value would be exempt; and for homeowners with incomes less than $47,000, 65 percent of the assessed home value would be exempt.

This bill would require the Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) to provide, no later than October 1 of each year, a list of the addresses of residential buildings that have failed to file required registration statements to the local Council Members of the districts in which such buildings are located.

This bill would prohibit a motor vehicle, when being removed by a tow truck due to temporary parking restrictions, from being relocated to a location at a parking meter or where parking, stopping, or standing is prohibited. It would also provide an affirmative defense to owners of relocated vehicles who receive parking tickets within a specified timeframe, and establish an escalating fine structure for violations by licensed tow operators of the bill’s prohibition against improper relocations, subject to certain exceptions.

This bill would establish an exemption from certain department of sanitation (DSNY) residential enforcement actions. During DSNY’s citywide routing system for the enforcement of residential littering violations, DSNY would be prevented from issuing notices of violation, appearance tickets, or summonses for residential premises when a property owner, lessee, tenant, occupant, or other person in charge of the premises is present and actively cleaning or preparing to clean the premises.

This bill would allow the Commissioner of Finance to exercise discretion over certain informational requirements set forth in section 11-138 of the Administrative Code concerning the Senior Citizen Rent Increase Exemption and Disability Rent Increase Exemption programs.