Requires the department of parks, recreation and historic preservation cut down trees within two weeks of receiving notice whether it was received through 311 or the department's webpage.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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8048
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
May 15, 2025
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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 parks, recreation and historic
preservation to cut down trees in a timely manner
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The section heading of section 18-151 of the administrative
2 code of the city of New York, as added by local law number 65 and as
3 renumbered by local law number 133 of the city of New York for the year
4 2017, is amended and a new subdivision 5 is added to read as follows:
5 Street tree maintenance [information posted online].
6 5. The department upon receiving an initial request for tree service
7 received through the 311 citizen service center request or the depart-
8 ment's webpage shall complete such request within two weeks of receiving
9 such initial request.
10 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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