The Law Department has contracted with American Legal Publishing Corporation to maintain a Web site where you can browse and search the New York City Charter, the New York City Administrative Code, and the Rules of the City of New York. The site also offers other useful tools for browsing and searching legislation, including an option to view all laws (known as bills) passed during a legislative session or vetoed by the Mayor.
The word “law” can be defined in many ways, but all definitions include the idea that law is a set of binding commands, enforced by the threat of sanctions, from a sovereign authority. This utilitarian answer to the question of what constitutes law was championed by Jeremy Bentham and held dominant for much of the 19th century.
Another important theory of what is a law is the natural law, which argues that laws reflect essentially moral, unchanging laws of nature or human reason. The natural law theory arose in ancient Greece and re-entered the modern world through St Thomas Aquinas’ writings. The modern development of the natural law theory was led by Germain Grisez and John Finnis, among others, who interpreted Aquinas’ teachings in various ways to broaden the scope and application of the concept of natural law.
This bill would require City agencies to provide their employees and job applicants with notice regarding the availability of federal and State student loan forgiveness programs. It would also make City law more consistent with requirements under New York’s SHIELD Act by requiring City agencies to promptly disclose information about security breaches of private identifying information. This bill would repeal a subchapter in the Administrative Code that contains existing laws regulating third-party food delivery services and incorporate those requirements into this law.