N.Y.C. Admin. Code § L.L. 2025/064: L.L. 2025/064

Enactment date: 5/24/2025

Int. No. 26-A

By Council Members Farías, Powers, Louis, Restler, Gutiérrez, Hudson, Marte, Hanif, Brewer, Holden, Avilés, Rivera, Abreu, Ossé, Krishnan, De La Rosa, Banks, Cabán, Brannan, Schulman, Ung, Gennaro, Feliz, Ayala, Nurse, Bottcher, Brooks-Powers, Hanks, Mealy and Carr

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to regulating helicopter operations at city owned heliports to reduce noise

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. a. In each covered contract executed on or after the effective date of this section, the commissioner shall require that, no later than April 1 of each year, the contracted entity submit to the mayor and the speaker of the city council a report detailing the percentage of flights by covered helicopters to or from a heliport that were non-essential flights during the previous calendar year.

b. For purposes of this section, the terms “commissioner,” “contracted entity,” and “covered contract” have the same meanings as such terms are defined in section 22-821 of the administrative code of the city of New York; and the terms “covered helicopter,” “heliport,” and “non-essential flight” have the same meanings as such terms are defined in section 22-828 of such administrative code, as added by section one of this local law.

§ 3. This local law takes effect on January 1, 2026, except that section one of this local law takes effect on December 1, 2029, and section two of this local expires and is deemed repealed on such date.