New York S 4941: Requires the New York city department of sanitation to remove any snow or ice accumulation in front of any fire hydrants

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S04941 Summary:

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Amends the provision requiring owners, lessees or tenants to remove any obstructions in front of fire hydrants to require the New York city department of sanitation to remove any snow or ice accumulation in front of any such fire hydrants.

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02/14/2025REFERRED TO CITIES 1

01/07/2026REFERRED TO CITIES 1

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 4941

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 February 14, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sen. COMRIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
 printed to be committed to the Committee on Cities 1

 AN ACT to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in
 relation to requiring the department of sanitation to remove any snow
 or ice accumulation in front of fire hydrants

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. Section 15-205 of the administrative code of the city of
 2 New York, as amended by local law number 149 of the city of New York for
 3 the year 2016 and paragraph 2 of subdivision b as amended by local law
 4 number 80 of the city of New York for the year 2020, is amended to read
 5 as follows:
 6 § 15-205 Obstruction of fire hydrants. a. For the purposes of this
 7 section, the term "fire hydrant street area" means, with respect to a
 8 fire hydrant, any space that is located:
 9 1. In a street; and
 10 2. Between the center of such street and a line that (i) is 20 feet in
 11 length, (ii) has such hydrant at its center point and (iii) runs paral-
 12 lel to the curb nearest such hydrant.
 13 b. 1. It shall be unlawful in any manner to obstruct the use of any
 14 fire hydrant, or to throw or pile, or allow any snow or ice or other
 15 material or thing to be thrown or piled (i) upon a fire hydrant, (ii)
 16 within two feet of a fire hydrant or (iii) within a fire hydrant street
 17 area. All material or things found obstructing any fire hydrant [may be
 18 forthwith] shall be removed by the officers or employees of the depart-
 19 ment, at the risk, cost and expense, of the [owner, lessee or tenant of
 20 the premises fronting such hydrant] department of sanitation.
 21 2. No newsstand may be located within ten feet from either side of a
 22 fire hydrant, except that this prohibition shall not apply to any news-
 23 stand which was first licensed by the department of consumer and worker
 24 protection before August 1, 1979, where the person who held the license

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD05994-01-5

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 1 for such newsstand on August 1, 1991 continues to be the licensee for
 2 such newsstand; provided, however, that where a newsstand which was
 3 first licensed before August 1, 1979 is reconstructed in its entirety or
 4 in substantial part, which reconstruction was commenced on or after
 5 August 1, 1991, such newsstand shall be subject to such prohibition.
 6 c. All snow and ice accumulating within a space identified in para-
 7 graph 1 of subdivision b of this section shall be removed by the [owner,
 8 lessee or tenant of the premises fronting such space within four hours
 9 after the snow ceases to fall, except that (i) such owner, lessee or
 10 tenant shall not be required to remove snow and ice from the fire
 11 hydrant street area or from the property of such owner, lessee or tenant
 12 and (ii) the time between 9:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m. shall not be included
 13 in the aforementioned period of four hours] department of sanitation.
 14 d. Notwithstanding section 15-216, a violation or knowing violation of
 15 this section shall be punishable in the same manner as a violation of
 16 subdivision a of section 16-123, except that a knowing violation of
 17 subdivision b of this section may in addition be punishable by imprison-
 18 ment not to exceed one day.
 19 e. In addition to the department, the department of sanitat