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Powers Tracker September 2026

What New York City local laws allow agencies to do

Local laws do more than assign work. They also give agencies authority to use when they choose: to write rules, inspect, charge fees, or impose penalties. This tracker lists every power in local laws enacted since 2014, apart from the duties in the Obligations Tracker. The methodology explains how each record is sorted.

Powers recorded
Laws that grant them
Agencies that hold them

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Powers by holding agency, top 12.

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Source: NYC Legistar enacted local laws, 2014 to present; NYCuriosity Powers Tracker

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Powers by type.

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Source: NYC Legistar enacted local laws, 2014 to present; NYCuriosity Powers Tracker

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Powers granted per year, by law enactment date.

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Grouped by the year in which each law was enacted. Source: NYC Legistar enacted local laws, 2014 to present; NYCuriosity Powers Tracker

Source: Author's analysis of enacted local law text from NYC Legistar. Agency names normalized with the NYC Agencies and Governance Organizations dataset.