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You could be sued by anyone claiming gender-motivated violence that you or your business enabled or took part in, including older incidents, within 18 months of the law's effective date.
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Any person claiming to be injured by a party who commits, directs, enables, participates in, or conspires in the commission of a crime of violence motivated by gender may bring a civil claim against that party.
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Enacted, Local Law 50 of 2026, Jan 29, 2026
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Employment practices liabilityEmployees or others may bring claims tied to gender-motivated violence at the workplace.
General liabilityThird-party injury claims could arise from violence enabled on business premises.
If your housing project gets city money, you must pay $40/hour combined ($25 in wages), try to hire 30% NYC residents, and workers can sue you.
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provide for a private right of action for aggrieved workers
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Enacted, Local Law 21 of 2026, Jan 17, 2026
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Employment practices liabilityWorkers can bring wage and benefit claims under the new private right of action.
Employees could sue you directly in court over alleged sick and safe time violations, within two years, without first filing a city complaint.
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This bill would allow employees who are alleging a violation of their rights under the Earned Safe and Sick Time Act (ESSTA) to commence a civil action in any court of competent jurisdiction.
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Enacted, Local Law 22 of 2024, Jan 20, 2024
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Employment practices liabilityAdds employee lawsuits over leave and sick time violations.
If you organize a large World Cup event on city land, the city may require you to provide, staff and clean public bathrooms as a permit condition.
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Enacted, Local Law 106 of 2026, Jun 13, 2026
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General liabilityCrowd bathroom access, sanitation and accessibility duties add premises-safety exposure for event organizers.
You must get a hotel license ($350, two years), staff the front desk and security, clean rooms daily, directly employ core staff, and provide panic buttons and training.
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Enacted, Local Law 104 of 2024, Nov 4, 2024
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Workers' compensationPanic buttons and trafficking training mandates affect employee safety at work.
Employment practices liabilityDirect employment mandate changes employment relationships and related claims.
General liabilityRequired security coverage and room cleanliness relate to guest premises safety.
If you run a pro or college sports venue, you must let fans bring in reusable metal bottles or face penalties.
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Enacted, Local Law 35 of 2024, Jan 20, 2024
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General liabilityOutside containers entering venues may change attendee injury and premises risk.
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If you bid on city contracts or use subcontractors, giving false qualification or subcontractor information could cost you $1,000 to $25,000 per violation.
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Enacted, Local Law 67 of 2026, Mar 14, 2026
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Directors & officersRegulatory penalties for false statements may be pursued against company management.
If you employ security guards, you must pay them at least the public building service contract minimum wage, vacation and supplemental benefits, and face city and worker enforcement.
If you offer immigration assistance services, fines for violations jump to $5,000–$20,000, and ads with images must carry the required notice of services you can't provide.
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Enacted, Local Law 101 of 2025, Jul 30, 2025
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If you run a year-round sidewalk cafe, you can enclose it each year from November 30 through March 31 and use approved weather protection materials at other times.
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Enacted, Local Law 143 of 2026, Sep 12, 2026
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General liabilityEnclosed sidewalk structures change customer injury and premises exposure.
Commercial propertySeasonal enclosures add structures and equipment to insure.
If DSNY newly designates your establishment, you must separate and dispose of organic waste by mid-2027, and your carter must give you food donation information.
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Enacted, Local Law 118 of 2026, Jul 30, 2026
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Cruise terminal operators must require ships that can use shore power to plug in while docked, when available, safe and practicable.
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Enacted, Local Law 54 of 2024, Apr 6, 2024
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If you owe old Environmental Control Board judgments, you can settle them during a 90-day window by paying the base penalty or 75 percent, with no interest.
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Enacted, Local Law 147 of 2026, Sep 12, 2026
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New businesses may be able to join a city program that coordinates inspections and plan reviews so you can open faster.
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Enacted, Local Law 132 of 2026, Aug 18, 2026
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If you are a partner or sole proprietor paying city unincorporated business tax, you get a smaller credit against your city personal income tax, so you pay more.
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Enacted, Local Law 133 of 2026, Aug 18, 2026
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If you hold a city contract over $100,000, you must self-certify no conflicts or misconduct and report any found within 10 business days.
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Enacted, Local Law 55 of 2026, Jan 29, 2026
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Directors & officersOfficers attest to no misconduct or conflicts, creating personal and regulatory exposure.
Until August 30, 2026, sanitation provider rules on receptacles and litter basket placement apply only if you got City Council funding or didn't apply for a receptacle siting by March 1, 2026.
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Enacted, Local Law 60 of 2026, Jan 29, 2026
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If you hold a covered DHS or criminal justice contract, you would get at least 25% of annual value upfront each quarter starting July 2027.
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Enacted, Local Law 11 of 2026, Jan 3, 2026
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If you have more than 200 employees working in NYC, you must file an annual pay data report with demographic and job information.
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Enacted, Local Law 173 of 2025, Dec 4, 2025
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Employment practices liabilityReported pay data by demographics may prompt pay discrimination claims.
You must give employees 32 extra hours of unpaid safe/sick time and let them use sick time for more reasons, such as child care and legal proceedings.
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Enacted, Local Law 145 of 2025, Oct 25, 2025
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Employment practices liabilityExpanded leave rights raise the chance of employee leave and retaliation claims.
If you run a regulated child care program, you must give parents the city's rights information when they enroll their child.
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Enacted, Local Law 129 of 2025, Sep 13, 2025
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If you bid on city contracts, you would gain a formal way to protest agency procurement decisions, except accelerated, emergency and small purchases.
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Enacted, Local Law 107 of 2024, Nov 9, 2024
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You must give every new hire your written lactation room policy and keep it available at your workplace and on your intranet, if you have one.
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Enacted, Local Law 109 of 2024, Nov 9, 2024
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Employment practices liabilityEmployees may claim lactation accommodation failures or missing policy distribution.
Any clause in your employment agreements that shortens the time employees have to file discrimination or harassment claims will be void and unenforceable.
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Enacted, Local Law 62 of 2024, May 11, 2024
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Employment practices liabilityEmployees keep full time to bring discrimination and harassment claims despite contract limits.
If you hold human services contracts with the city, your employees must complete anti-racism training every year, or you can run your own approved curriculum.
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Enacted, Local Law 13 of 2024, Jan 6, 2024
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You can't use algorithms and customers' personal data to charge different customers different prices for the same item; bona fide discounts are still allowed.
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Next hearing Thu, Nov 12, 2026 at 11:00 AM, Committee on Consumer and Worker Protection, 250 Broadway - 8th Floor - Hearing Room 3. Agenda
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Cyber & privacyRestricts use of customer personal data in pricing algorithms.
You can't schedule home care aides for shifts over 12 hours or more than 56 hours a week without their written opt-in, and you must give them a rights notice.
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Employment practices liabilityScheduling and hour-limit violations can lead to employee claims and penalties.
Workers' compensationLimits on long shifts relate to fatigue and workplace injury risk.
If you sponsor a permitted street activity, you must handle waste and recycling, submit a compliance plan, and make sure food vendors give out single-use items only on request.
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You must give employees unpaid leave for bone marrow or living organ donation, and you can face penalties if you don't.
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Employment practices liabilityEmployees could bring leave-denial or retaliation claims.
If you run a pedicab business, your pedicabs need meters and scannable plates, and drivers need DCWP safety training yearly to get or renew a license.
General liabilityPassenger safety training and rules affect third-party injury exposure.
Discrimination based on sex characteristics, including intersex traits, is clearly covered as gender discrimination, so you must not treat people differently on that basis.
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Employment practices liabilityClarifies discrimination claims by employees and applicants can cover intersex traits.
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You can't use facial or other biometric recognition to identify customers, and you must give notice, get written consent, and protect any biometric data you collect.
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Cyber & privacyBiometric data collection, consent, and protection duties raise data-privacy and breach exposure.
You could not hold or win city contracts if your business engages in immigration enforcement, and this would apply to your existing city contracts.
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You can apply to a city pilot that matches your small business with a social media content creator for marketing help.
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If you provide human services under a city contract, you must pay your human services employees at least the prevailing wage.
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Employment practices liabilityWage requirements raise exposure to employee wage claims.
If you hold a city human services contract, you must report to the agency within 30 days whenever you sign a subcontract with a certified MWBE.
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If you run a registered tobacco bar, you can ask to move your registration and tobacco retail license once, to a new location, if you show financial hardship.
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If you provide a chatbot, you must secure and limit use of user data, give users access to it, disclose that it's not human, and not imply licensed-professional advice.
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Cyber & privacyNew data security, privacy, and access duties for chatbot user data.
Professional liability / Tech E&OAdvice-equivalence restrictions affect claims over chatbot-provided guidance.
If you are a city contractor, you must post whistleblower protection information covering AI-related reports, and your employees get protection for reporting AI risks.
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Employment practices liabilityEmployee whistleblower retaliation claims expand to AI-related reporting.
Eligible small businesses can get technology literacy training, including how to use AI, through an SBS program.
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Next hearing Tue, Dec 1, 2026 at 1:00 PM, Committee on Small Business, 250 Broadway - 8th Floor - Hearing Room 2. Agenda
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If you hold a city contract, the city must pay the undisputed part of an invoice on time and tell you in writing about any disputed portion.
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Next hearing Wed, Feb 10, 2027 at 10:00 AM, Committee on Contracts, 250 Broadway - 8th Floor - Hearing Room 1. Agenda
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You cannot keep or exhibit elephants in the city unless you meet habitat and care conditions, or you face $1,000 daily fines and lawsuits.
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The bill would allow any person to seek to enjoin violations in court.
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General liabilityExhibiting elephants carries bodily injury and animal-related third-party exposure, and the bill adds penalties.
Customers, competitors, and others could sue you over unfair, deceptive, or abusive business practices.
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This bill would be enforced by a private right of action.
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General liabilityBroad new lawsuits over deceptive or unfair practices, including advertising injury claims.
Directors & officersManagement may face claims alleging unlawful business practices.
Employees, applicants, and customers get six years instead of three to sue you over discrimination or harassment under the city human rights law.
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increase from three years to six years the statute of limitations to file a civil action by persons aggrieved by unlawful discriminatory practices or acts of discriminatory harassment or violence under the city human rights law.
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Employment practices liabilityLonger window for discrimination and harassment claims by employees and applicants.
You must give tipped workers daily pay and tip breakdowns and let customers tip the way they paid. Workers can sue you under a new private right of action.
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The bill also creates additional administrative remedies and a private right of action.
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Employment practices liabilityTipped workers can bring wage-and-tip claims, including through the new private right of action.
Employers could face broader discrimination claims, including punitive damages and individual liability, as the human rights law is read more liberally and vicarious liability rules are repealed.
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clarify the interpretation of specific sections of the law as they pertain to punitive damages, mistakenly perceived alcoholism, municipal immunity, individual liability
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Employment practices liabilityDiscrimination claims with punitive damages and individual liability raise employment claim exposure.
Directors & officersIndividual liability may reach managers and officers personally.
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You can't consider vaccination status when hiring, firing, or setting job terms, and employees or applicants could sue you.
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Finally, the bill would authorize administrative remedies for violations, as well as a private right of action.
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Employment practices liabilityEmployees and applicants can bring claims over hiring, firing, and employment terms.
To get a permit for a large public event, you must have a plan to prevent and respond to sexual harassment and assault, and give attendees reporting notices.
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General liabilityEvent sponsors take on added attendee safety duties and possible claims tied to misconduct at events.
If you employ or engage people to sell tickets in public spaces, your business must get a city license, and a seller's violations could put it at risk.
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You can't give live fish as prizes, and street event permit holders must stop anyone at their event from doing so and certify they understand this.
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Carriage operators face new licensing exam and probationary license rules, but can start operating as early as 7 a.m. on weekdays in Manhattan.
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Commercial autoChanged operating hours and licensing affect carriage vehicle operations on streets.
If you run a place of assembly serving drinks, lacking a valid Certificate of Operation or required security guards is an immediately hazardous violation, and lessees share the guard duty.
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General liabilityPremises safety and security guard requirements for assembly venues affect third-party injury exposure.
If you hold a DOT street closure permit, you must set up temporary no-standing zones on surrounding streets and notify the affected area.
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General liabilityAdded street-side duties during closures could raise third-party injury or property claims.
Non-tobacco hookah venues will need a DCWP license instead of a health permit, must admit only people 21 and older, and some bars and restaurants can now serve shisha late.
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General liabilityPremises and patron injury exposure at licensed hookah venues.
Commercial propertyFire Code amendments affect fire safety requirements for venues.
If you use the stipulated fine or commercial abatement programs, higher-earning businesses will pay higher reduced fines than they do now.
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You would need a city license to run a massage business, must post it, and may only use licensed (or exempt) massage staff and keep records proving it.
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Repeat Fair Work Week violations cost up to double the fines, and unpaid penalties can cost you your food service permit and trigger severance for staff.
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Employment practices liabilityScheduling and wage-related violations raise employee claim and penalty exposure.
If a worker dies on the job, you must give the city additional information or face a $1,000 to $2,500 fine per violation.
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Workers' compensationWorkplace fatalities must be reported and are compiled in a public database.
If you fundraise or do political consulting for city candidates, you cannot lobby them after they are elected, and violations bring civil penalties.
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Directors & officersRegulatory actions and penalties may target management of firms that lobby.
You can no longer enter non-compete agreements with employees, existing ones are void, and each violation can cost you $500.
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Employment practices liabilityEmployee claims over non-compete agreements and employment practices could increase.
You could not refuse housing to someone because of current or past sex work, and a city board would review unfair work practices against sex workers.
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Employment practices liabilityNew unfair work practice enforcement could generate claims from workers who engage in sex work.
You can't run E-Verify on applicants you haven't hired, you must post your E-Verify enrollment notice, and each violation can cost you $10,000.
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Employment practices liabilityHiring and work-authorization screening practices could draw employee or applicant claims.
You could face a higher maximum fine for ignoring an order from the Commission on Human Rights.
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You could face a misdemeanor and fines if you put a GPS tracker on someone else's vehicle without their consent.
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Cyber & privacyUnauthorized location tracking is surveillance of personal data and creates exposure.
You must give employees 5 extra paid hours a year for preventative medical screening, on top of sick time, and can't make them make up the hours.
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Employment practices liabilityNew leave entitlement creates employee claims risk for failure to provide paid time.
You could face higher maximum city fines if the Commission on Human Rights finds you engaged in unlawful discrimination.
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Employment practices liabilityLarger discrimination penalties raise exposure from employee and applicant claims.
If you hold a Parks permit and the reserved area becomes unavailable, you can get a credit or refund.
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If you build or convert a property into a transient hotel, you must file a community impact statement with your construction documents before permits are approved.
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If you run a nightlife venue, the NYPD can start multi-agency inspections with only 7 days' notice, and none if your Place of Assembly permit is missing or violated.
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If you host short-term rentals in an owner-occupied one- or two-family home, you can host up to 4 guests, be away during stays, and lock private rooms.
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General liabilityMore guests and unattended stays may raise injury and property damage exposure.
If you run non-essential helicopter flights from city-owned heliports, those operations would be prohibited.
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Your chartered helicopters can't take off or land at city-owned heliports unless they meet stage 3 noise levels.
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On Spare the Air Days you could not do outdoor charcoal grilling, and DEP may bar other activities that hurt outdoor air quality.
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You must keep a licensed guide on the upper deck of your double decker sightseeing bus whenever passengers are up there, in addition to the driver.
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Commercial autoChanges operating rules for a commercial passenger vehicle.
Your sightseeing helicopters cannot take off or land at city-owned heliports unless they meet federal stage 1, 2 or 3 noise levels.
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If you repeatedly violate the Human Rights Law, you must carry out a city-supervised anti-discrimination plan for 1 to 5 years.
You could not discriminate based on a person's family or relationship structure in hiring, housing, or serving customers.
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Employment practices liabilityEmployees and applicants may claim discrimination based on family or relationship structure.
You could not refuse to hire, or deny service to, someone because of their actual or perceived poverty.
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Employment practices liabilityApplicants and employees may claim discrimination based on poverty.
You must provide at least one separate gender-neutral bathroom wherever the Plumbing Code requires plumbing fixtures, in addition to sex-separated ones.
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Commercial propertyRequires plumbing and bathroom fixture changes to buildings.
Your funeral firm can apply for an annual DOT permit to park authorized funeral vehicles in no-parking spots near your establishment for up to four hours.
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You must let covered employees use earned safe and sick time to attend their child's school events, including parent-teacher meetings.
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Employment practices liabilityLeave denial or retaliation claims could rise with the expanded permitted use.
If you run a supervised release program under a city contract, you must notify the court and parties within 5 or 10 days of a missed check-in.
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If you own or operate certain energy storage systems, you must have them remotely monitored and independently inspected under the fire code.
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Commercial propertyFire safety monitoring and inspection duties for energy storage systems on owned or leased property.
General liabilityFire risk from battery systems can injure third parties on premises.
If you contract with certain city agencies, you must report pay and employment data by race, gender and pay band to the city, which will analyze it for disparities.
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Employment practices liabilityPay disparity analysis by protected class may prompt employee discrimination claims.
You must pay employees a city minimum wage of $29 to $30 an hour phased in by 2030-2031, with yearly inflation-based increases.
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Employment practices liabilityWage and hour claims from employees could rise with a much higher minimum wage.
You could post your remote job openings on a city-run website, once the city verifies that your business and the jobs are legitimate.
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You must hold a reintegration meeting with each employee returning from parental leave, unless they opt out in writing.
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Employment practices liabilityMissed or mishandled return-from-leave meetings could prompt employee claims.
You must give employees paid personal time for any reason, earning one hour per 30 worked, up to 80 hours a year.
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Employment practices liabilityNew paid leave rights create leave and wage/hour claim exposure.
If you hold an emergency city client-services contract during a disease outbreak, you may have to pay in-person workers time and one-half hazard pay.
If you are covered by Fair Work Week, the city can order you to release employees for a training, and you must pay them for training and travel time.
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Employment practices liabilityMandated paid training time adds wage/hour compliance exposure.
If you hold or bid on city contracts, you must meet standardized insurance requirements set by contract category.
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General liabilityCity contractors must carry insurance coverage meeting new standardized guidelines.
You must let employees use earned safe and sick time to care for a sick or injured companion or service animal.
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Employment practices liabilityDenying or disciplining sick-time use could trigger employee leave claims.
Your child care center can request free opioid antagonist kits for every child and staff member, plus free training on using them.
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You must follow new rules on how you determine the pay range shown in your job listings.
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Employment practices liabilityPay range posting and hiring practices can lead to applicant or employee claims.
You can't require low-wage employees to sign non-competes, and you must tell job candidates up front if a non-compete is required.
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Employment practices liabilityHiring and employment-agreement practices could draw claims from employees or applicants.
You may have to give paid safe and sick time to qualifying independent contractors, not just employees.
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Employment practices liabilityLeave claims could now come from contractors who meet the new definition of employee.
You must give caregivers reasonable workplace accommodations and take part in a cooperative dialogue with them about those accommodations.
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Employment practices liabilityCaregiver accommodation and discrimination claims by employees or applicants become possible.
If you run a pre-K center under a DOE contract, you must pay education staff at least DOE rates and provide similar benefits or cash in lieu.
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Employment practices liabilityPay and benefit parity rules can lead to wage and benefit claims by staff.
Film, TV, and theater productions that commit to hiring and accommodating people with disabilities can apply for city grants.
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You could get free, individualized legal help from the city on making your leased business space accessible to people with disabilities, if funding is appropriated.
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If you hold a city contract and committed to working with community members or groups, you must report on that work to the agency every quarter.
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If you run a child day care center, you would no longer pay Parks Department permit fees for park use and could apply for permits online.
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You could get reimbursed for buying and installing a panic button that alerts the police, if you take part in the city's pilot program.
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You could get reimbursed by the Police Department for buying and installing panic buttons that alert police in an emergency.
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If you have over 100 employees, you must tell current staff about openings before choosing a candidate and share info about who was selected.
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Employment practices liabilityEmployees may claim unfair promotion practices tied to the new notice duties.