{"data":{"id":"us-nyc/n.y.c.-admin.-code-l.l.-2005-122","jurisdiction":"us-nyc","citation":"N.Y.C. Admin. Code § L.L. 2005/122","heading":"L.L. 2005/122","body":"Enactment date: 12/29/2005\n\nInt. No. 550-A\n\nBy Council Members Martinez, Moskowitz, Barron, Brewer, Comrie, Dilan, Fidler, Gennaro, Gentile, Gerson, Gonzalez, Jennings, Koppell, Liu, Monserrate, Nelson, Palma, Quinn, Recchia Jr., Sanders Jr., Stewart, Weprin, deBlasio, Jackson and The Public Advocate (Ms. Gotbaum)\n\nA Local Law to amend the New York city charter, in relation to requiring the New York city department of education to report on the number of temporary and non-standard classrooms in use in the public school system.\n\nBe it enacted by the Council as follows:\n\nSection 1. Legislative findings. New York City public schools have been overcrowded for decades. As a result, at hundreds of schools across the City, the Department of Education has installed \"temporary classrooms\" or \"transportable classroom units.\" These are semi-permanent, modular buildings designed to provide classroom space cheaply and quickly. Unfortunately, many of these temporary classrooms have become permanent fixtures in their schoolyards. The Department has insufficient funds to replace them with proper school buildings, and, therefore, many of these structures have remained in use for decades.\n\nThese temporary classrooms are undesirable for many reasons. They are often poorly heated, ventilated and lit. They isolate children from their school communities and take up space that is needed for playgrounds and athletic facilities.\n\nIn addition to installing temporary classrooms, the Department, in response to overcrowding, has converted non-classroom space within existing school buildings to classroom use. As a result, many students attend class in converted offices, bathrooms, basements, and other spaces that were not designed to be classrooms. These spaces often lack sufficient natural light, and are laid out in a manner that is far from ideal. Some of these spaces likely do not meet minimal standards for appropriate classroom design. Furthermore, in the most overcrowded schools, the elimination of libraries, laboratories, art rooms, auditoriums and other spaces in order to provide classroom space deprives children of fundamental, important aspects of their education.\n\nAlthough the Department of Education has for years promised to eliminate the use of temporary and non-standard classrooms, it has been slow to do so. The public is not aware of the scope of these problems, as parents are generally only familiar with their children's schools. Therefore, public pressure to improve these substandard classrooms has not reflected the level of public dissatisfaction with such facilities. The Council finds that the Department's efforts to eliminate temporary and non-standard classrooms would be aided by the annual public disclosure of the number of such classrooms.\n\n* * *\n\n[Consolidated provisions are not included in this Appendix A]\n\n* * *\n\n§ 3. If any subsection, sentence, clause, phrase or other portion of this local law is, for any reason, declared unconstitutional or invalid, in whole or in part, by any court of competent jurisdiction, such portion shall be deemed severable and such unconstitutionality or invalidity shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of the local law that added this section, which remaining portions shall remain in full force and effect.\n\n§ 4. This local law shall take effect immediately after its enactment into law.","path":["New York City Administrative Code","2005"],"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":"94c1167fc4d73c6a9d460fa61b099d1ac53b99e9c4cdfc161f30e2a493fe2af4","source_id":"us-nyc","stale":false,"prev":"us-nyc/n.y.c.-admin.-code-l.l.-2005-121","next":"us-nyc/n.y.c.-admin.-code-l.l.-2005-123"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}