Section 1072. Powers and duties of the department

Except as otherwise
  provided by law, the department shall  have  the  following  powers  and
  duties:
    a.  to  plan, formulate, coordinate and advance information technology
  and telecommunications policies for the city;
    b. to develop, maintain and implement a long range  telecommunications
  strategy;
    c.  to  administer  all  franchises and revocable consents relating to
  telecommunications pursuant  to  the  provisions  of  chapter  fourteen,
  including,  without  limitation,  proposing  authorizing resolutions for
  telecommunications  franchises,  developing  and  issuing  requests  for
  proposals  or  other  solicitations  of proposals for telecommunications
  franchises,  selecting  telecommunications  franchisees,  reviewing  and
  approving    petitions    for    revocable    consents    relating    to
  telecommunications,  negotiating  the  terms  of  contracts   or   other
  agreements  relating  to  telecommunications  franchises  and  revocable
  consents, and enforcing the terms and conditions of such agreements;
    d. to develop  municipal  uses  of  cable  television  and  coordinate
  interagency uses of cable television and other telecommunications;
    e.  to ensure that priority is given on at least one municipal channel
  to the cablecasting of the public proceedings of  the  council  and  its
  committees,  the  city  planning  commission  and  other  state and city
  agencies;
    f. to provide to city agencies such  land-based  and  wireless  voice,
  data, video or other communications facilities, and technical assistance
  or other assistance with respect to such facilities, as they may require
  for the effective discharge of their responsibilities;
    g.  to  participate  in  developing,  maintaining  and  implementing a
  long-range computer systems and data  communications  strategy  for  the
  city of New York;
    h.  to assist in providing interagency coordination on matters related
  to data communications activities and interfacing of computers;
    i. to provide appropriate,  reliable,  cost-effective  and  responsive
  computer  and data communications services to agencies that require such
  services by purchasing and maintaining hardware, software and such other
  goods and services as may be  necessary  to  effectively  discharge  the
  powers and duties of the department;
    j.  to provide assistance to agencies in meeting their data processing
  and data communications objectives;
    k. to provide agencies using or proposing to use the services of  this
  department  with  technical  assistance  in  determining feasibility and
  resource requirements;
    l. to simplify access  to  shared  information,  reduce  communication
  costs  and  provide  access  to  multiple computer systems by connecting
  computers and terminals of various city agencies, and  of  other  public
  entities  requesting  such connection where such provision to such other
  entities would in the judgment of the  commissioner  be  in  the  city's
  interests;
    m.  to  plan and provide telecommunications coordination in support of
  disaster recovery;
    n. to ensure security for data and other information handled  by  this
  department;
    o.  to  institute  procedures  to  assure  restrictions  of  access to
  information to the appropriate individuals, where such restrictions  are
  required by law; and
    p.  to perform such other responsibilities with respect to information
  technology and telecommunications  matters,  including  responsibilities
  delegated elsewhere by the charter, as the mayor shall direct.