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If road construction hurts your small storefront, you can apply to SBS for low-interest loans or grants to offset losses.
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Enacted, Local Law 163 of 2026, Nov 7, 2026
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Enacted as New York City law since 2024, highest exposure first.
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.
Your tobacco or e-cigarette dealer license can be denied renewal, suspended, or revoked if you sell cannabis without proper authorization.
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Enacted, Local Law 152 of 2026, Oct 10, 2026
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If you own newsracks, you must give DOT your email, keep them cleaned and repainted, and could be cited for violations or have racks treated as abandoned.
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Enacted, Local Law 72 of 2026, Mar 27, 2026
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General liabilityNewsracks on public sidewalks carry third-party injury and property exposure; upkeep rules change that.
More street vendor licenses become available, but vendors face higher fines, possible suspension or revocation after 3 violations, and a duty to keep their area clean.
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Enacted, Local Law 54 of 2026, Jan 29, 2026
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You must give occupants 60 days' notice before raising self-storage fees and must explain any termination, or face fines up to $1,000.
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Enacted, Local Law 162 of 2025, Nov 28, 2025
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If you sell firearms, you must display DOHMH's graphic warning images next to the required written warnings or face $5,000 to $10,000 fines.
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Enacted, Local Law 164 of 2025, Nov 28, 2025
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You may not sell or distribute menstrual or intimate care products with listed harmful ingredients, and each violation can cost up to $250.
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Enacted, Local Law 136 of 2025, Oct 10, 2025
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Product liabilitySelling products with restricted ingredients increases exposure for harm from goods you sell.
Street vendors no longer face misdemeanor charges; unlicensed or other violations bring civil fines or penalties instead.
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Enacted, Local Law 122 of 2025, Sep 10, 2025
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If you use contracted delivery workers, you must follow minimum pay, pre-acceptance disclosure, bag, fire safety and toilet access rules, and face enforcement.
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Enacted, Local Law 123 of 2025, Sep 10, 2025
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Employment practices liabilityPay and worker protection rules expand claims exposure from delivery workers.
Commercial, manufacturing and industrial buildings face littering fines rising to $500 for a third violation within 12 months.
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Enacted, Local Law 67 of 2024, Jun 22, 2024
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If you sell e-bikes, e-scooters or similar devices, you must post lithium-ion battery safety information in your store and online or face $150 to $350 fines per violation.
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Enacted, Local Law 49 of 2024, Mar 29, 2024
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Product liabilityBattery safety warnings relate to harm from devices you sell.
If you sell, lease or rent e-bikes or mobility devices, you must keep certification records and show lab certification online, with higher penalties and possible sealing of premises.
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Enacted, Local Law 50 of 2024, Mar 29, 2024
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Product liabilitySellers of powered devices face stricter certification and enforcement exposure.
If you run a mobile car wash, you could be fined $100 a day for operating unlicensed, and your vehicle and equipment could be towed and forfeited.
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Enacted, Local Law 32 of 2024, Jan 20, 2024
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Commercial autoVehicles used for mobile car washes can be towed, stored, and forfeited.
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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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.
Latest action Nov 7, 2026: Enacted
If road construction hurts your small storefront, you can apply to SBS for low-interest loans or grants to offset losses.
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Enacted, Local Law 163 of 2026, Nov 7, 2026
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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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Small retail businesses could get city financial help to buy and install security system technology.
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Enacted, Local Law 120 of 2026, Jul 30, 2026
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You no longer have to replace your security grille with one that is 70% see-through by July 1, 2026, if your building is Group B or M.
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Enacted, Local Law 123 of 2026, Jul 30, 2026
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If your property is in the Fulton Street BID, the way your district charge is calculated will change, which could change what you pay.
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Enacted, Local Law 101 of 2026, May 30, 2026
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More mobile food vendor and general vendor license applications can be issued until the cap is reached, so you may be able to get a license if there is demand.
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Enacted, Local Law 59 of 2026, Jan 29, 2026
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A new Coney Island BID would be created, so property owners in the district would pay BID assessments and receive its services.
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Enacted, Local Law 43 of 2026, Jan 17, 2026
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Fines for non-hazardous awning and accessory sign violations are paused for three years, including signs installed before February 2025, with fee-waived permit help continuing.
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Enacted, Local Law 15 of 2026, Jan 3, 2026
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If you place a preauthorization hold on fuel sales, you must post a notice at your payment point explaining the hold, its amount and how customers can avoid it.
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Enacted, Local Law 196 of 2025, Dec 25, 2025
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You must display a gender-based violence resource poster, which the city provides free, if you run a hair, nail, or skincare salon.
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Enacted, Local Law 198 of 2025, Dec 25, 2025
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Fewer licenses, fingerprinting requirements, surety bonds and replacement fees apply to many licensed businesses like locksmiths, secondhand dealers and process servers.
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Enacted, Local Law 183 of 2025, Dec 12, 2025
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Your Lincoln Square BID charge may be calculated differently, and the district could provide additional services.
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Enacted, Local Law 186 of 2025, Dec 12, 2025
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You must give customers an itemized statement of charges before providing tax services and an itemized receipt afterward, in both paper and electronic form.
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Enacted, Local Law 168 of 2025, Nov 28, 2025
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If you run a third-party grocery delivery service, you must pay grocery delivery workers at least the city's minimum pay rate for delivery workers.
If your property is in the Madison Avenue BID, the way your district charge is calculated will change and the BID can spend more.
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Enacted, Local Law 8 of 2025, Jan 18, 2025
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You can no longer sell dogs or cats in your pet shop, and the city's old pet shop recordkeeping and standards rules for them are repealed.
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Enacted, Local Law 132 of 2024, Dec 21, 2024
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If you distribute publications from sidewalk newsracks, you must meet new DOT size, shape, material and placement standards and get notice of changed rules.
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Enacted, Local Law 120 of 2024, Dec 13, 2024
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General liabilityNewsrack construction and sidewalk placement standards relate to sidewalk obstruction and third-party injury.
If your property is in the new Cypress Hills Fulton BID, you will be assessed district charges to fund its services.
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Enacted, Local Law 96 of 2024, Oct 12, 2024
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If you own property in the expanded Long Island City BID area, you may pay district assessments under a new formula and a higher annual budget.
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Enacted, Local Law 97 of 2024, Oct 12, 2024
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If you run a mobile food cart, you can display or store goods on top of it, and vendors no longer have to keep the old bookkeeping records.
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Enacted, Local Law 51 of 2024, Mar 29, 2024
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Food cart and truck employees no longer each need a state sales tax certificate, and you skip the tax clearance certificate when renewing your license.
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Enacted, Local Law 52 of 2024, Mar 29, 2024
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You may not vend from or occupy a bicycle lane with your vending activity if you are a general or mobile food vendor.
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Enacted, Local Law 53 of 2024, Mar 29, 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.
If you lease storefront space, you must give a written lease, renewal terms and premises information, and face court penalties and damages for violations; tenants gain protections.
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The bill would permit a court to impose civil penalties and award damages, equitable relief, attorneys’ fees and court costs for failure to comply with these requirements.
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You can be fined for dirty sidewalks in front of your business during your posted hours of operation, and other commercial premises can be fined for littering.
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You could not sell or rent class three electric-assist bikes in NYC, and violations can cost up to $2,000 in civil penalties.
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Product liabilityLimits which e-bike models you can sell or rent, changing product exposure.
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 run a grocery or a store with a pharmacy and take credit or debit cards, you must accept flexible benefit cards or risk fines.
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If you run a warehouse that delivers to NYC consumers, you must get a city license and meet safety, training and employment conditions.
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Workers' compensationSafety and training conditions for warehouse workers.
Employment practices liabilityEmployment requirements and worker enforcement options.
General liabilityFacility safety conditions tied to the license.
You can be fined if you sell or distribute fraudulent license plates, including fraudulent temporary plates.
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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.
Class 3 e-bikes would be banned on city streets, so couriers or staff riding them could face fines and impoundment, which could affect your delivery operations.
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Commercial autoWorkers using class 3 e-bikes for deliveries face fines and impoundment of bikes.
Your ads for an AI model must say whether a third party validated it and can't include false or misleading safety claims, or you risk up to $25,000 in penalties.
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Product liabilityMisleading safety claims about AI models raise exposure for harms from models sold.
Directors & officersRegulatory penalties may target management over deceptive advertising.
If you sell mopeds, you must hand out city-developed operation and ownership materials to buyers at the point of sale.
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If you use bikes, e-bikes, mopeds or motorcycles for deliveries, you must give workers safety gear, ID and safety info, and keep records of them.
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Commercial autoExpands safety duties for bikes, mopeds and motorcycles used in your deliveries.
Workers' compensationSafety equipment and info duties relate to delivery worker injuries.
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.
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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Community composters can charge the public for drop-off organic waste collection and sell the compost they make, once DSNY adopts rules.
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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 your small business is in a high retail-theft zip code, you can apply for free security measures like cameras and plexiglass through an SBS pilot.
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If you get a littering violation for the area next to your building, you can ask to do community service instead of paying the fine.
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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 your business has operated in NYC 20+ years, you could be nominated for a legacy registry and get grants. Landlords offering a 10-year lease could get grants too.
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You can't raise the price of any item in your grocery store more than once in a 24-hour period.
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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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You can't advertise vehicles that must be DMV-registered as e-bikes or e-scooters, and as a retailer you must post and hand out the city's e-bike information.
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Product liabilitySellers of e-bikes and e-scooters face new rules on how these vehicles are marketed.
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.
If you use bicycles commercially, you must give your motor-assisted bike operators fireproof or fire-resistant containers for charging removable batteries.
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Next hearing Fri, Nov 20, 2026 at 9:30 AM, Committee on Fire and Emergency Management, Council Chambers - City Hall. Agenda
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Commercial autoRules on e-bikes used by workers for business deliveries change fleet-related requirements.
Workers' compensationBattery charging containers reduce fire and injury risk to workers.
Commercial propertySafer battery charging lowers fire risk at business premises.
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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The city could seal your vape shop if you repeatedly sell without a license, sell to under-21s, or sell flavored products.
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Next hearing Fri, Nov 20, 2026 at 10:00 AM, Committee on Oversight and Investigations, 250 Broadway - 8th Floor - Hearing Room 2. Agenda
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You can't buy, sell, or use software that sets rents or prices from competitors' non-public data, and you could be fined or sued.
People can sueRead the clause
This bill would also make available a private right of action to enforce the prohibitions.
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Cyber & privacyRestricts collection and use of competitor data for pricing tools.
Professional liability / Tech E&OPricing software providers face claims over prohibited tools and services.
Customers, competitors, and others could sue you over unfair, deceptive, or abusive business practices.
People can sueRead the clause
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.
If you are a commercial landlord with a fee-shifting lease clause, tenants are presumed to recover attorneys' fees from you when you default or lose a case you bring.
People can sueRead the clause
The tenant would be able to recover attorneys’ fees through a legal proceeding commenced against the landlord or through a counterclaim in any legal proceeding commenced by the landlord against the tenant.
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General liabilityLandlords face added legal-fee exposure from tenant claims and counterclaims.
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.
People can sueRead the clause
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.
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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.
People can sueRead the clause
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.
You can't consider vaccination status when hiring, firing, or setting job terms, and employees or applicants could sue you.
People can sueRead the clause
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.
You no longer need a price tag on each item; you just show the total selling price at the point of display, and charging more than advertised is still a violation.
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You must keep the exterior and interior of offices, schools and stores dark at night, unless an exemption applies, or risk a $1,000 fine.
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General liabilityDarker premises at night may raise third-party injury claims.
You can't require grocery delivery workers to carry over 22 pounds per trip or wear backpacks on bikes, scooters or mopeds, and you can't retaliate.
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Workers' compensationLimits on load weight and gear change delivery worker injury risk.
Commercial autoRules govern how workers deliver on bicycles, scooters and mopeds.
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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You must post a DCWP-approved sign near each entrance or register warning that assaulting retail workers is a felony, or face penalties.
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General liabilityNew premises signage mandate with penalties for noncompliance.
You can't require more than a $10 minimum for credit card purchases, and you must post a notice of that rule at your register or point of sale.
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If your business dumps trash in public litter baskets, anyone can report you, and the reporter can prosecute the fine at OATH for a share of it.
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You can't mount a speaker on the outside of any vehicle you own, including work vehicles, or you face fines and towing for repeats.
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Commercial autoBusiness vehicles with exterior speakers face fines and towing, disrupting fleet operations.
You can't sell or give out confetti containing any plastic after Dec 31, 2026; repeat violations cost $150 to $350 each.
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You must staff self-checkout with one employee per three kiosks and cap self-checkout at 15 items, or face daily per-employee fines.
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If you vend on a portion of Fordham Road, you will need a license specifically allowing vending there during the 5-year pilot.
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You can no longer sell flavored cigarettes or flavored nicotine pouches, and violations bring civil penalties.
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You can't distribute or sell tianeptine in NYC, and you face civil penalties if you do. Licensed medical professionals may still dispense it.
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Product liabilitySelling a banned substance raises exposure for harm from products you sell.
You can't sell multi-merchant physical gift cards unless they have chip-and-PIN technology, or you face $500 to $1,000 fines per violation.
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You could face higher fines, and a criminal misdemeanor on a third offense, for dumping business trash in public litter baskets.
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You must give customers a discount when the register price exceeds the shelf or advertised price, and post a notice of that policy.
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Your cannabis dispensary may only open from 9:30 AM to 9:30 PM, and you face fines of $1,000, then $2,000, for violations.
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Newsstand operators and property owners face higher fines if a newsstand sits too close to a hydrant or a hydrant is blocked, including by piled snow.
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Selling or delivering cannabis without a state license, or giving or selling it to anyone under 21, could get your business sued, enjoined and closed as a public nuisance.
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You can't sell gas-powered leaf blowers or lawn mowers after 2025, and you can't use them after 2026, or you face penalties.
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You can't sell e-cigarettes that look like highlighters, pens, pencils or staplers, and violations can bring fines, license suspension, seizure and sealing.
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If you provide shopping carts, you must tag each cart with your contact info and use an approved containment measure, or pay $100 per cart.
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You can't park dealer vehicles on city streets to display, repair, or hold them, and vehicles awaiting repair or return need a windshield placard.
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Commercial autoDealer vehicles face street-parking bans, fines, and possible impoundment.
You can't park customer or inventory vehicles on city streets for your business, and violations cost $250 to $400 per day.
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Commercial autoBusinesses must relocate customer and inventory vehicles off the street, changing vehicle storage exposure.
General liabilityMoving vehicle storage and handling onto business premises changes on-site third-party injury exposure.
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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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 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.
New requirement
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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.
You can't sell, offer, or distribute menstrual or intimate care products containing restricted harmful ingredients, and the health department will publicly list products found with them.
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Product liabilitySellers and makers of these products face exposure for goods with restricted ingredients.
You could not operate a new smoking paraphernalia shop within 500 feet of a school.
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If you run a veterinary facility, you must disclose standard prices, give estimates for higher-cost services on request, and provide itemized receipts.
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You can no longer sell general merchandise or mobile food on Washington Street between York and Front Streets in Brooklyn.
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You can no longer sell birds such as parrots, cockatiels, finches, parakeets and macaws in your pet shop.
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You can't be fined by DSNY for uncleared sidewalk snow or ice until city agencies finish clearing streets and their own infrastructure and certify it.
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Food store owners may get free cat vaccinations and spay/neuter services, though state rules must also change before you can keep a store cat.
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If your business uses e-bikes, electric scooters or similar vehicles, such as for deliveries, you would have to license and register them.
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Commercial autoRegistration rules apply to motorized bikes and scooters used by workers for the business.
You can't open a cannabis dispensary within 500 feet of a public youth facility unless you were already licensed or had an approved location.
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You must get consent before collecting or sharing NYC residents' personal data, and honor requests to list, revoke or delete within 90 days.
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Cyber & privacyConsent, disclosure and deletion duties for personal, biometric and AI-training data change data-handling exposure.
You can no longer sell glue traps in NYC, so you must pull them from your inventory.
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Newsstands would no longer be bound by a price cap on goods or services, and stands primarily selling written matter would count as newsstands.
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If you hold a newsstand license, you could operate from an abandoned newsstand, and new locations will be approved based on foot traffic.
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If your commercial property is in a qualifying corridor with high storefront vacancy, you may be able to get certain fees waived.
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Starting in 2032, you can't sell single-use beverage containers whose caps come off or that lack a drinking opening while the cap is attached.
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You can't sell diesel leaf blowers or lawn mowers after Sept 1, 2022, and can't use them after Sept 1, 2023.
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If you run a covered store, you must keep a bin for unwanted reusable bags and sanitize and reuse good ones.
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General liabilityCollection bins and reused bags could create customer hygiene or premises claims.
You can no longer sell from a general vending or mobile food vending spot on Jamaica Avenue between 75th and 98th Streets in Queens.
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Your grocery store may be exempt from commercial rent tax if it meets the floor space and affordability requirements.
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Street vendors may place pushcarts two feet from the curb instead of against it, which makes exiting the cart safer.
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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.
If you are caught vending without a license, the maximum fine drops to $500 and the daily civil penalty to $50.
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Mechanics who repair e-bikes and e-scooters would need a city battery safety certification and would be listed on a public monthly roster.
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General liabilityBattery fire and injury risk from repair work on customers' devices may be affected by certification.
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.
If you buy or accept used lithium-ion e-bike or scooter batteries, you must keep records and submit them to DCWP, and share them with DSNY and FDNY on request.
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You can no longer vend or run a mobile food cart on the listed Queens streets, including Bell Boulevard and parts of 35th to 43rd Avenues.
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You can't discriminate against protected classes when giving credit, and you must tell borrowers how their rate is calculated.
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Directors & officersCommission investigations of credit discrimination can create regulatory exposure for management.
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.