New York City Business Integrity Commission Explained

Agency Name:	Business Integrity Commission
Type:	commission
Nativename:	BIC
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Agency Type:	Regulatory/Law Enforcement
Jurisdiction:	New York City
Employees:	85 ^[1]
Chief1 Name:	Elizabeth Crotty
Chief1 Position:	Commissioner and Chair
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Keydocument1:	New York City Charter
Keydocument2:	Local Law 21 of 2002

The Business Integrity Commission (BIC) is the agency of the New York City government responsible for regulating the private carting industry, public wholesale markets businesses, and the shipboard gambling industry.^[2] Its purpose is to combat corruption in these industries from organized crime, and was created from the 2001 Organized Crime Control Commission, itself created from the 1996 Trade Waste Commission, the Markets Division in the Small Business Services Department, and the Gambling Commission.^[3]

It consists of a chairperson appointed by the mayor and of the commissioners of the Police Department, the Department of Consumer and Worker Protection, the Department of Investigation, the Department of Small Business Services and the Department of Sanitation, or their designees.^[4]

Inspectors and Investigators

The inspectors and investigators of the New York City Business Integrity Commission are designated as peace officers by the chairperson of such commission; pursuant to section 210(82) of the NYS criminal procedure law. As Peace Officers (Inspectors and investigators) they are tasked with conducting investigations of accidents involving private carting trucks, criminal complaints and also affect arrest of violators of New York State Penal Law, and issue civil and criminal summonses. They also perform enforcement of the rules and regulations governing the private carting industry and or the city owned public wholesale markets in New York City. These inspectors and investigators also conduct other special investigations. These may include joint investigations with the NYPD against businesses.^[5]

See also

• New York City Office of Administrative Trials and Hearings (OATH), for hearings conducted on summonses for quality of life violations issued by the Commission
• New York State Gaming Commission

Commissioners & Chairs

Commissioner	Mayor	Took office	Left office	Notes
Dan Brownell^[6]	Bill de Blasio	2014	2019
Noah Genel^[7]	Bill de Blasio	2019	2021
Elizabeth Crotty^[8]	Eric Adams	2022

Michael J Mansfield - mayor Michael Bloomberg 2007-2011

External links

• • Business Integrity Commission in the Rules of the City of New York
• CityAdmin, a collection of NYC administrative decisions from the Center for New York City Law

Notes and References

1. Web site: Fiscal Year 2020 New York City Government Workforce Profile Report . February 13, 2023 . . shinyapp.io.
2. Web site: About BIC. Business Integrity Commission. 26 December 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20090408060210/http://www.nyc.gov/html/bic/html/about/about.shtml. 8 April 2009. dead.
3. Web site: History. Business Integrity Commission. 26 December 2016.
4. [New York City Charter]
5. Web site: NYC investigators raid Brooklyn offices of heating oil giant in fraud probe. New York Daily News. 25 May 2017 .
6. Web site: 13 May 2014 . Mayor de Blasio Appoints New Chair of The Business Integrity Commission . 2022-03-18 . The official website of the City of New York.
7. Web site: 25 April 2019 . Mayor de Blasio Appoints Noah Genel as Commissioner and Chair of the Business Integrity Commission . 2022-03-18 . The official website of the City of New York.
8. Web site: 18 March 2022 . Mayor Adams Appoints Elizabeth Crotty as Business Integrity Commission Commissioner and Chair . 2022-03-18 . The official website of the City of New York.