City Council Speaker Me­lissa Mark-Viverito has separately proposed a parallel system of handling violations for certain quality-of-life crimes, including public drink­ing and littering, with administrative summonses that would be adjudicated by the Office of Administrative Trials and Hearings.

That system would remove those violations from the criminal courts and avoid the threat of warrants issued for people who don’t keep their court dates. Ms. Mark-Vi­v­erito has said that the NYPD will set guidelines for when summonses would be handled administratively or criminally.

Some bills have already been introduced by Ms. Mark-Viverito and Council Members Ben Kallos, Rory Lancman and Vanessa Gibson.