Section 1072. Powers and duties of the department.
Except as otherwise provided by law, the department shall have the following powers and duties:
a. to plan, formulate, coordinate and advance information technology and telecommunications policies for the city;
b. to develop, maintain and implement a long range telecommunications strategy;
c. to administer all franchises and revocable consents relating to telecommunications pursuant to the provisions of chapter fourteen, including, without limitation, proposing authorizing resolutions for telecommunications franchises, developing and issuing requests for proposals or other solicitations of proposals for telecommunications franchises, selecting telecommunications franchisees, reviewing and approving petitions for revocable consents relating to telecommunications, negotiating the terms of contracts or other agreements relating to telecommunications franchises and revocable consents, and enforcing the terms and conditions of such agreements;
d. to develop municipal uses of cable television and coordinate interagency uses of cable television and other telecommunications;
e. to ensure that priority is given on at least one municipal channel to the cable casting of the public proceedings of the council and its committees, the city planning commission and other state and city agencies;
f. to provide to city agencies such land-based and wireless voice, data, video or other communications facilities, and technical assistance or other assistance with respect to such facilities, as they may require for the effective discharge of their responsibilities;
g. to participate in developing, maintaining and implementing a long-range computer systems strategy, data communications strategy, spatial data interoperability strategy for the city of New York and plan for the use of geospatial information systems by city agencies;
h. to assist in providing interagency coordination on matters related to data communications activities and interfacing of computers, including convening, under the direction of the chief geospatial information officer, annual interagency meetings of agency personnel responsible for supervising the collection, management or use of geospatial data and, when appropriate, other geospatial experts, to enable citywide coordination and collaboration in areas including application development, data sharing and data interoperability;
i. to provide appropriate, reliable, cost-effective and responsive computer and data communications services to agencies that require such services by purchasing and maintaining hardware, software and such other goods and services as may be necessary to effectively discharge the powers and duties of the department;
j. to provide assistance to agencies in meeting their data processing and data communications objectives;
k. to provide agencies using or proposing to use the services of this department with technical assistance in determining feasibility and resource requirements;
l. to simplify access to shared information, reduce communication costs and provide access to multiple computer systems by connecting computers and terminals of various city agencies, and of other public entities requesting such connection where such provision to such other entities would in the judgment of the commissioner be in the city's interests;
m. to plan and provide telecommunications coordination in support of disaster recovery;
n. to ensure security for data and other information handled by this department;
o. to institute procedures to assure restrictions of access to information to the appropriate individuals, where such restrictions is required by law;
p. to perform such other responsibilities with respect to information technology and telecommunications matters, including responsibilities delegated elsewhere by the charter, as the mayor shall direct;
q. to provide to the public at no charge on the city's website an interactive map, updated as often as practicable and necessary but not less than once per week, displaying the following:
1. Permitted and approved street closures that do not allow for the passage of vehicular traffic on that street, including but not limited to closures for special events, crane operations and other construction work, film shoots and paving operations; and
2. Parking regulations. The information related to paragraph (1) of this subdivision shall be searchable and sortable by time, date and borough, except that street closures for crane operations, construction work and paving operations shall have the notation "subject to closure" during times where closure has been permitted and approved but where such closure may or may not occur on a particular day. All information required by this subdivision shall be available on the city's website as soon as practicable but in no case less than one week prior to any such closure or change, except closures which were applied for or planned less than one week prior to any such closure or change, which shall be available on such interactive map within seventy-two hours of the permit and approval of such closure. Where a permitted and approved street closure is due to a special event, the sponsor of the event with appropriate contact information shall be provided as part of such interactive map. For the purposes of this subdivision, special event shall mean any street fair, block party or festival on a public street(s) where such activity may interfere with or obstruct the normal use by vehicular traffic of such street(s); and
r. to provide to the public, at no charge on the city's website, an interactive crime map that, for each segment of a street bounded by one or more intersections and/or a terminus, shall visually display the aggregate monthly, yearly and year-to-date totals for the current and the most recent prior calendar years for each class of crime that is reported to the New York city police department, or for which an arrest was made, including crimes that occurred in parks and subway stations. Such map shall be searchable by address, zip code, and patrol precinct. All information required by this subdivision shall be available on the city's website as soon as practicable but in no case more than one month after a crime complaint has been filed. The mayor shall ensure that all agencies provide the department with such assistance and information as the department requires to compile and update the interactive crime map.
(Am. L.L. 2022/042, 1/15/2022, eff. 4/15/2022)
Editor's note: For related unconsolidated provisions, see Administrative Code Appendix A at L.L. 1994/024.
