Borough Presidents

NYC Admin. Code tit. 3, ch. 5

in effect

NYC Admin. Code § 3-501 Receipts to be recorded and accounted for.

§ 3-501 Receipts to be recorded and accounted for. Each borough president shall enter the names of all persons from whom he or she may receive money for the city, on trust account or otherwise, with the amounts received, on what account, and when paid, in books to be provided for that purpose and kept in the borough president's office, open at all convenient times to public inspection. The borough president shall render a verified account thereof, item by item, to the comptroller, on Thursday of each week, and shall thereupon pay over the amount so received to the director of finance, from whom he or she shall receive duplicate vouchers therefor, one of which the borough president shall file in the office of the comptroller on the same day.

NYC Admin. Code § 3-502 Permits.

§ 3-502 Permits. In all cases where provision is made by law that the consent of a borough president shall be obtained to authorize any act to be done, he or she may grant a permit therefor, subject to the restrictions of all laws in relation thereto. Upon granting any such permit, the borough president may exact such cash deposit or bond, or both, as he or she may deem necessary to safeguard the interests of the city.

NYC Admin. Code § 3-503 President of borough to furnish information.

§ 3-503 President of borough to furnish information. The president of any borough shall furnish the council and the board of estimate with such surveys, diagrams or other information as may enable them to discharge their duties relative to street and park improvements.

NYC Admin. Code § 3-504 Borough president; right of entry.

§ 3-504 Borough president; right of entry. The president of any borough may enter in the day time upon any lands, tenements, hereditaments and waters which he or she shall deem necessary to be surveyed, used or converted, for the purpose of laying out, surveying and monumenting parks, streets, bridges, tunnels and approaches to bridges and tunnels or marking any boundary line or lines.

NYC Admin. Code § 3-505 Street numbers.

§ 3-505 Street numbers. a. Requirements. 1. The owner, agent, lessee or other person in charge of any building in the city upon a street to which street numbers of buildings have been assigned by the president of the borough in which such building is situated, shall cause the proper street number or numbers of such buildings to be displayed in such manner that the street number or numbers may at all times be plainly legible from the sidewalk in front of such building. The term "front" as used in this section shall be construed to mean that side of the building which faces the street on which the number or numbers of such building, or premises on which such building is situated, have been assigned. The number or numbers shall be displayed on such side of such building or premises. Each borough president shall have the power to establish and enforce rules and regulations relating to the size, form, visibility and location of street numbers in accordance with the requirements of this section. 2. Where a building has frontage on more than one street, every side of such building that has an entrance primarily utilized for day-to-day pedestrian ingress and egress shall display either: (a) The assigned street number of the street on which such entrance faces, or (b) Both the street name and assigned street number of any other street on which an entrance of such building primarily utilized for day-to-day pedestrian ingress and egress faces. b. Violations. If the owner, lessee, agent or other person in charge of any building in the city upon a street to which street numbers of buildings have been assigned by the president of the borough in which such building is situated shall fail to display the proper street number of such building, as provided in the foregoing subdivision, the president of the borough in which such building is situated shall forthwith serve such person or persons with a copy of this section, and if after thirty days' notice the owner, lessee, agent or other person in charge of such building shall fail or neglect to comply with the provisions thereof, he or she shall be subject to a penalty of two hundred fifty dollars, which shall be sued for and collected in the name of the city. Any person who shall continue any such offense shall pay an additional sum of fifty dollars for each day such offense shall continue. (Am. L.L. 2017/026, 3/18/2017, eff. 3/18/2018) Editor's note: For related unconsolidated provisions, see Appendix A at L.L. 2017/026.

NYC Admin. Code § 3-506 Borough presidents to adjust numbering.

§ 3-506 Borough presidents to adjust numbering. In all cases where a street shall have been numbered or renumbered, the borough president having jurisdiction shall thereafter adjust and renumber such street as the same may be required from time to time. In numbering and renumbering houses, the borough president shall leave sufficient numbers on each block, so that, under any circumstances, there would be but one block where a change would be required, in case of renumbering at any subsequent time.

NYC Admin. Code § 3-507 Numbers in certain sections in the borough of Manhattan.

§ 3-507 Numbers in certain sections in the borough of Manhattan. Whenever any street north of Ninth street, inclusive, in the borough of Manhattan, shall be directed to be numbered or renumbered, the president of such borough shall cause the numbers to commence at Fifth avenue, numbering east and west, beginning with number one, on the west side of Fifth avenue; number one hundred, on the west side of Sixth avenue; number two hundred on the west side of Seventh avenue, and so on, east and west of Fifth avenue, through the whole series of streets north of Ninth street, and including Ninth street. Such streets shall hereafter be called and known as East Ninth and West Ninth street, and so on, the dividing line to be Fifth avenue.

NYC Admin. Code § 3-508 Excavations or embankments near landmarks.

§ 3-508 Excavations or embankments near landmarks. It shall be unlawful for any person to make any excavation or embankment, or to lay or move any pavement or flagging, within three feet of any monument or bolt, which has been set by proper authority, or designated on any official map as a landmark to denote street lines within the city, unless a permit therefor has been obtained from the president of the borough in which such monument or bolt is situated. Applications for such permits shall be in writing, and shall set forth the nature of the work proposed, and the location of all monuments or other landmarks affected thereby. The borough president shall thereupon cause one of the city surveyors or an engineer in the borough president's office to take such measurements and field notes as may be necessary to restore such monuments or bolts to their correct position after the completion of the contemplated work, and, when such measurements and field notes have been taken, the required permit shall be issued.

NYC Admin. Code § 3-509 Removal or covering up of landmarks.

§ 3-509 Removal or covering up of landmarks. It shall be unlawful for any person to remove or cover up a monument or bolt for designating any street, without giving three days' notice in writing of his or her intention so to do to the commissioner of transportation and to the president of the borough in which the monument or bolt is situated. Upon receiving such a notice, the borough president shall cause one of the city surveyors, or an engineer in the borough president's office to take the necessary measures to raise or lower such monument or bolt to the proper grade of the street, and, when necessary, to cause such alteration to be noted on records to be kept in the borough president's office for that purpose. Whenever a borough president shall ascertain that any monument or bolt has been removed, without such notice, he or she shall forthwith cause the same to be placed in its proper position, and shall note the same on the records in the manner hereinbefore stated. The expenses attending such replacement shall be paid by the comptroller, on the certificate of the borough president causing the work to be done.

NYC Admin. Code § 3-510 Violations.

§ 3-510 Violations. Any person who shall make any excavation or embankment, or lay or take up any pavement or flagging within three feet of any monument, bolt or other landmark, without having first obtained a permit to perform such work, or who shall in any way remove or deface any monument, bolt or other landmark, shall be punished for each offense by a fine of fifty dollars, imprisonment for not more than thirty days, or both.

NYC Admin. Code § 3-511 Provision of legislative process and parliamentary procedure training materials; training for community boards.

§ 3-511 Provision of legislative process and parliamentary procedure training materials; training for community boards. a. Definitions. For purposes of this section, the term “designated agency” means an agency or office designated by the mayor, the head of which is appointed by the mayor. “Designated agency” may include the civic engagement commission provided that such commission consents to such designation. b. Development of training materials. 1. Each borough president shall collaborate with the other four borough presidents and, in consultation with the civic engagement commission, shall develop uniform training materials regarding the legislative process of the council and any additional relevant rules of parliamentary procedure. The department of citywide administrative services shall make a learning platform available to, or assist in engaging a consultant for, the borough presidents to use in developing such training materials upon request. 2. Each borough president, or a borough president designated by the other four borough presidents, shall provide such materials to the designated agency. c. Provision of training. Beginning on April 1, 2026, and annually thereafter, borough presidents, in consultation with the civic engagement commission, shall provide training to members and district managers of community boards within their respective boroughs using the materials developed pursuant to subdivision b of this section. Each borough president shall record which community board members and district managers have completed such training. (L.L. 2025/197, 12/25/2025, eff. 12/25/2025)

NYC Admin. Code § 3-512 Equal employment opportunity training for community boards.

§ 3-512 Equal employment opportunity training for community boards. a. Definitions. For purposes of this section, the term “equal employment opportunity training” means training that includes, but is not limited to, anti-sexual harassment training and anti-discrimination training. b. Training materials. The commissioner of citywide administrative services shall provide to borough presidents the training materials developed pursuant to section 815.1, 815.2, or 815.3 of the charter. c. Provision of training. 1. Beginning on April 1, 2026, and annually thereafter, each borough president shall provide equal employment opportunity training to community board members and staff members within their boroughs using the materials provided pursuant to subdivision b of this section. Borough presidents may coordinate with the department of citywide administrative services to provide such training. 2. For any in-person training, each borough president shall provide both daytime and evening options. d. Training requirement. 1. All community board members and staff members, including those appointed or employed after the effective date of this local law, shall complete equal employment opportunity training upon appointment or employment and annually by April 1 thereafter. 2. Notwithstanding paragraph 1 of this subdivision, a community board member who is also employed by the city and has completed equal employment opportunity training through their workplace within the 12 months prior to April 1, may instead provide a certification of such training to the borough president and may make annual submissions of certifications of such training by April 1 every year thereafter. A staff member who, immediately before their employment by the community board, was a city employee and had completed equal employment opportunity training through their workplace within the 6 months prior to their start date with the community board may instead provide a certification of such training to the borough president. e. Training records. Each borough president shall record which community board members and staff members have completed such training. (L.L. 2026/018, 1/17/2026, eff. 1/17/2026)

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