Section 16-326
§ 16-326 Definitions. For purposes of this subchapter, the following
terms shall have the following meanings:
a. "Producer/Event Manager" means any person or entity hired by a
sponsor to organize or manage a street event.
b. "Recyclable Materials" means metal cans, glass bottles and jars,
plastic bottles and jugs, lightly-soiled aluminum foil and aluminum foil
products, and any other material designated by the department for
recycling at street events.
c. "Sponsor" means any person or entity that is required to apply for
and obtain a street activity permit and that either organizes or manages
a street event or hires a producer/event manager to organize or manage a
street event.
d. "Street Event" means any street fair or festival on a public street
where such activity may interfere with or obstruct the normal use by
vehicular traffic of such street, but does not include street activities
that occupy no more than one block for no more than one day where no
licensed vendor participates.
Section 16-327
§ 16-327 Sponsor and producer/event manager responsibilities at street
events. a. Every producer/event manager shall ensure that solid waste
and recyclable materials generated at a street event are properly
disposed of or recycled.
b. 1. Every producer/event manager shall provide a sufficient number
of public solid waste receptacles and public recycling receptacles for
street events as determined by the department, provided that the
producer/event manager shall place at least two receptacles within or
near each intersection within the street event area, one for solid waste
and one for recyclable materials.
2. Every producer/event manager shall regularly monitor all solid
waste and recycling receptacles throughout the street event area in
order to prevent spillage of solid waste and recyclable materials into
the street and shall remove any solid waste that has been deposited into
receptacles designated for recyclable materials and remove any
recyclable materials that have been deposited into receptacles
designated for solid waste.
3. Every producer/event manager shall bag and bundle separately and
tie securely all accumulated solid waste and recyclable materials at the
end of each day of the street event.
4. Every producer/event manager shall ensure that all bagged and
bundled solid waste and recyclable materials are placed at a
predetermined location designated by the department for collection.
c. Every sponsor and producer/event manager shall comply with all
applicable rules governing street events, including, but not limited to,
rules set forth in chapter fourteen of title sixteen of the rules of the
city of New York, to the extent such rules are not inconsistent with the
provisions of this subchapter.
d. The provisions of subdivisions a and b of this section shall apply
to the sponsor when there is no producer/event manager.
Section 16-328
§ 16-328 Penalties. In addition to any other applicable penalties, any
producer/event manager, or any sponsor when there is no producer/event
manger, who violates subdivision a or b of section 16-327 of this
subchapter shall be liable for a civil penalty of one hundred dollars
for each such violation, except that a sponsor or producer/event manager
shall not be liable for more than five hundred dollars per day or more
than two thousand dollars per street event. Such civil penalties shall
be recoverable in a proceeding returnable before the environmental
control board.