Local laws 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.
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The tracker at a glance
Powers by holding agency, top 12.
Powers by type.
Powers granted per year, by law enactment date.
Powers by the prime sponsor of the law that grants them, top 10.
Source: Author's analysis of enacted local law text from NYC Legistar. Agency names normalized with the NYC Agencies and Governance Organizations dataset.
