{"data":{"id":"us-nyc/n.y.c.-admin.-code-l.l.-1991-094","jurisdiction":"us-nyc","citation":"N.Y.C. Admin. Code § L.L. 1991/094","heading":"L.L. 1991/094","body":"Enactment date: 12/16/1991\n\nInt. No. 724-A\n\nBy Council Members Berman and Leffler (by request of the Mayor); also Council Members Dryfoos, Albanese, Robles and Povman (Passed under a message of necessity from the Mayor)\n\nA Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York in relation to an enhanced 911 telephone surcharge\n\nBe it enacted by the Council as follows:\n\nSection 1. Declaration of legislative findings and intent. The council acknowledges the paramount importance of the health, safety and welfare of the citizens of the city of New York, and when the lives or property of its citizens are in imminent danger, timely and appropriate assistance must be rendered. The council recognizes further that such assistance is often summoned by the three-digit number, \"911\", a nationally recognized and applied telephone number which is used to summon police, firefighting, medical and other emergency services. The council finds that the enhanced emergency service known as \"E911\" provides substantial benefits beyond the basic 911 system, through, inter alia, the provision of selective routing and automatic number and location identification, and that these enhancements not only significantly reduce the response time of emergency services but also represent the state-of-the-art in fail-safe emergency telephone system technology.\n\nThe council further finds that a major obstacle to the establishment of an E911 system is the cost of the telecommunication equipment and services which are necessary to provide such system. In recognition of the necessity to provide a funding mechanism for the establishment of an E911 system, in 1989 the New York state legislature enacted article six of the county law, which authorizes municipalities of the state to adopt local laws to impose a monthly surcharge on the customers of telephone service suppliers. Nothing herein shall be construed to abridge the powers of the New York city department of finance or any other city department, or the right of such departments to engage in any of their necessary or proper activities.\n\n* * *\n\n[Consolidated provisions are not included in this Appendix A]\n\n* * *\n\n§ 3. This local law shall take effect immediately and shall remain in effect until the last day of the thirty-sixth month after the first service supplier shall have first added the monthly surcharge pursuant to subdivision c of section 11-2323 of this chapter.","path":["New York City Administrative Code","1991"],"source_url":"https://files.amlegal.com/pdffiles/NewYorkCity/Admin/XML.zip","current_through":"Local Law 2026/135 (enacted August 31, 2026)","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-06T02:48:57Z","sha256":"39f9e7fcf54e7c35c4cf7dc3329584de85b72e0ddc0e43c35c11d24614f986f3","source_id":"us-nyc","stale":true,"prev":"us-nyc/n.y.c.-admin.-code-l.l.-1991-092","next":"us-nyc/n.y.c.-admin.-code-l.l.-1991-095"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}