N.Y.C. Admin. Code § L.L. 1997/028: L.L. 1997/028

Enactment date: 5/16/1997

Int. No. 806-A

By the Speaker (Council Member Vallone) and Council Members Fisher, O'Donovan, White and Eristoff (by request of the Mayor); also Council Member Williams

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the City of New York, in relation to the regulation of public wholesale markets

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

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[Consolidated provisions are not included in this Appendix A]

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§ 2. The Brooklyn wholesale meat market, as described herein, shall be a public wholesale market for the purposes of section 1301 of the New York City charter and section 72-p of the general municipal law, as enacted by chapter five hundred six of the laws of nineteen hundred eighty-nine, and the commissioner of business services shall be authorized to exercise within the Brooklyn wholesale meat market all powers vested in the commissioner under the provisions thereof and this local law. The Brooklyn wholesale meat market shall consist of that area within the borough of Brooklyn beginning at the point where the westerly street line of first avenue intersects the center line of fifty-fourth street; thence southerly approximately eight hundred and eighty-six and four-tenths feet along the westerly street line of first avenue; thence westerly along a line perpendicular to first avenue to the United States pierhead line; thence northerly along the United States pierhead line to a point where the center line of fifty-fourth street as extended intersects the United States pierhead line; thence easterly along the center line of fifty-fourth street as extended to the point of beginning.

§ 3. Notwithstanding any other provision of this local law to the contrary, the provisions of chapter 1-B of title 22 of the administrative code of the city of New York as added by section 1 of this local law regarding: (1) the authorization of the commissioner of business services to require a wholesaler or market business to contract with an independent auditor contained in section 22-253 of such code; (2) requirements for the registration of a labor organization or labor union and the disqualification from office-holding in such organizations contained in sections 22-264 and 22-260 of such code as added by section 1 of this local law; and (3) requirements for the registration of a market business contained in section 22-253 of such code of the city as added by section 1 of this local law shall apply as of the effective date of this local law within the fulton fish market distribution area or other seafood distribution area as defined in section 22-202 of the administrative code; provided, however, that no enforcement of the provisions of such section 22-253 with respect to the registration of such market business, the registration of labor organizations or labor unions or the disqualification of officers of such organizations or unions, or the registration of wholesaler trade associations or the disqualification of officers of such associations shall take place until following the effective date of rules promulgated pursuant to this local law, except that, with respect to a market business doing business in the fulton fish market distribution area or other seafood distribution area as of the effective date of this local law the principals of which the commissioner has required to submit to fingerprinting and disclosure pursuant to section 22-258 of the administrative code as added by section 1 of this local law, no enforcement of such requirements shall take place unless and until such entity has failed to submit such fingerprints or disclosure within the time period specified by the commissioner or such registration has been denied.

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[Consolidated provisions are not included in this Appendix A]

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§ 12. This local law shall take effect immediately.