Bill Text: NY A10506 | 2009-2010 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires department stores in shopping malls to clearly display signs directing customers towards the exits when exits cannot be seen throughout such stores.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-04-02 - referred to consumer affairs and protection [A10506 Detail]

Download: New_York-2009-A10506-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         10506
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                     April 2, 2010
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       Introduced by M. of A. MARKEY -- read once and referred to the Committee
         on Consumer Affairs and Protection
       AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to requiring shop-
         ping  mall  department stores to post directional signs indicating the
         direction of travel to the nearest exit
         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  390-e to read as follows:
    3    S  390-E.  DEPARTMENT  STORE EXIT SIGNAGE. 1. AS USED IN THIS SECTION,
    4  THE FOLLOWING TERMS SHALL HAVE THE FOLLOWING MEANINGS:
    5    (A) "DEPARTMENT STORE" MEANS ANY RETAIL ESTABLISHMENT  IN  A  SHOPPING
    6  MALL CONSISTING OF TWENTY THOUSAND SQUARE FEET OR MORE.
    7    (B)  "SHOPPING  MALL"  MEANS ANY PRIVATELY OWNED BUILDING OR SERIES OF
    8  BUILDINGS HOUSING TWENTY OR MORE RETAIL ESTABLISHMENTS AND OFFERING  FOR
    9  LEASE  A  TOTAL  OF  FIFTY THOUSAND SQUARE FEET OR MORE OF RETAIL SPACE,
   10  REGARDLESS OF WHETHER VACANT OR NOT.
   11    2. THE OWNER OR LESSEE OF  ANY  DEPARTMENT  STORE  SHALL  POST,  WHERE
   12  DOORS,  OPENINGS OR PASSAGEWAYS GIVING ACCESS TO ANY MEANS OF EGRESS ARE
   13  NOT VISIBLE FROM ALL  PORTIONS  OF  SUCH  STORE,  DIRECTIONAL  SIGNS  IN
   14  CONSPICUOUS  LOCATIONS, INDICATING IN RED ON A WHITE BACKGROUND, OR VICE
   15  VERSA, THE DIRECTION OF TRAVEL TO THE NEAREST MEANS OF EGRESS.
   16    3. THE OWNER OR OPERATOR OF  ANY  DEPARTMENT  STORE  FOUND  TO  BE  IN
   17  VIOLATION  OF  THIS  SECTION  SHALL BE SUBJECT TO A CIVIL PENALTY NOT TO
   18  EXCEED SEVEN HUNDRED FIFTY DOLLARS PER VIOLATION.
   19    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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