Bill Text: NY A09964 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires full service gas station service to be provided to senior citizens and to persons with disabilities with a disabled license plate or hang tag at no additional cost where the retail full service station offers both self service and full service sales; provides civil penalties of up to $100 for violation thereof.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-05-02 - referred to consumer affairs and protection [A09964 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A09964-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9964
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                       May 2, 2016
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  RICHARDSON  -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Consumer Affairs and Protection
        AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation  to  the  sale  of
          motor fuels to senior citizens and persons with disabilities
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. The general business law is amended by adding a new section
     2  199-o to read as follows:
     3    § 199-o. Sale of motor fuels to senior citizens and persons with disa-
     4  bilities. 1.  Any person, firm or corporation which regularly  deals  in
     5  the  retail sale of motor fuels to consumers, offering both self-service
     6  and full service at any individual station, shall provide  full  service
     7  of  such  motor  fuels,  including any services reasonably necessary, to
     8  persons sixty-five years of age or older and any persons with  disabili-
     9  ties at the same price charged at the self-service islands.
    10    2.  The provisions of this section shall apply as long as the individ-
    11  ual station is open to the public.
    12    3. For the purposes of this section "person with  disabilities"  shall
    13  mean the registered owner of a motor vehicle who has been issued special
    14  license tags by the state or who displays a handicapped card or insignia
    15  issued  by a governmental entity pursuant to section four hundred four-a
    16  of the vehicle and traffic law.
    17    4. Any person who violates the provisions of  this  section  shall  be
    18  guilty  of a violation and shall be subject to a civil fine in an amount
    19  up to one hundred dollars for each violation.
    20    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    21  it shall have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD08607-01-5