N.Y.C. Charter § 377: Section 377. Bureau of franchises.

The bureau of franchises shall be discontinued as of the first day of July, nineteen hundred ninety. The records and staff of the bureau of franchises shall be transferred to the department of transportation, except that the records and staff of the bureau relating to telecommunications franchises shall be transferred to the department of telecommunications and the records relating to energy shall be transferred to such agency as the mayor shall designate.