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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 29, 2002
PR-202-02
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MAYOR MICHAEL R. BLOOMBERG SIGNS BILL INTRODUCING
BUSINESS INTEGRITY COMMISSION


Remarks by Mayor Bloomberg at a Public Hearing on Local Laws


"The bill before me today is Introductory Number 177-A, sponsored at my request by Council Members Reed, Comrie, Diaz, Rivera and Weprin. This bill changes the name of the Organized Crime Control Commission to the Business Integrity Commission.

"On November 6, 2001, New York City voters approved a proposed Charter change to make the Trade Waste Commission a permanent City agency and changed its name to the Organized Crime Control Commission. The new Business Integrity Commission is charged with licensing and regulating the trade waste industry, the businesses located in the City's seven public wholesale markets and shipboard gambling.

"Changing the agency's name to the Business Integrity Commission removes the stigma of criminality from the businesses we regulate because the former agency name tarred all of the businesses regulated with the unsavory brush of organized crime. This change will in no way impair the agency's mission of overseeing trade waste, shipboard gambling and the public wholesale markets. This new City agency will remain vigorous and evenhanded, one that protects customers and the public, while fostering an even playing field for competition."

 

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