NYC to nix dozens of fines on businesses in effort to cut red tape

[Kamaji]

Eric Adams: NYC to nix dozens of fines on businesses in effort to cut red tape

By Sam Raskin
May 15, 2022

New York City will completely eliminate 30 fines on businesses and reduce about 90 others as part of ongoing efforts to cut red tape, Mayor Eric Adams announced Sunday.

City officials said the changes — which include reducing fines for breaking 49 local regulations and instituting a grace period for 39 of them — will save the Big Apple’s more than 200,000 small businesses a projected $8.9 million a year in penalties.

“For too long, we stifled the entrepreneurial spirit in New York City,” Adams said at a press conference in Manhattan. “No one wanted to do business here, no one wanted to go through the bureaucracy.”

Now, “That is not how we are going to run this city,” Adams vowed.

The mayor did not disclose a full list of the newly amended city regulations, but among those being lifted are Sanitation Department penalties for failing to offer specific garbage bins for compostable straws and the Department of Buildings violation for not posting electrical work permits while such work is ongoing, according to a City Hall press release.

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Source:  https://nypost.com/2022/05/15/adams-nyc-to-nix-dozens-of-fines-on-businesses-in-effort-to-cut-red-tape/

[verga]

Yeah but is he still going to continue DeBlasio's "defund the police"?

[GtHawk]

Yeah but is he still going to continue DeBlasio's "defund the police"?

Well that $8.9 million has to be made up somewhere.