Bill Text: NY A06423 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires food retailers to provide scales for customer use in an accessible location and with a conspicuous sign reading "for customer use".
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-05-09 - substituted by s4080 [A06423 Detail]
Download: New_York-2011-A06423-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ S. 4080 A. 6423 2011-2012 Regular Sessions S E N A T E - A S S E M B L Y March 16, 2011 ___________ IN SENATE -- Introduced by Sen. RITCHIE -- read twice and ordered print- ed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Agriculture IN ASSEMBLY -- Introduced by M. of A. MAGEE -- read once and referred to the Committee on Agriculture AN ACT to amend the agriculture and markets law, in relation to requir- ing food retailers to provide scales for customer use THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 5 of section 190 of the agriculture and markets 2 law, as added by chapter 874 of the laws of 1977, is amended to read as 3 follows: 4 5. Wherever food or food products are packaged or wrapped for sale by 5 a retailer in advance of being sold, or offered or exposed for sale, an 6 accurate computing scale of sufficient capacity shall be maintained. 7 Such scale shall be [located not more than thirty feet from the pre- 8 packaged display and shall be so] placed as to be easily accessible to 9 customers[. A] AND A prominent and conspicuous sign reading "for custom- 10 er use" shall be displayed on or near such scale. 11 S 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall 12 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD10201-01-1